Sandra Hutchison, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/sandrahutchison/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:55:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 10 Reasons To Be Less Productive During A Pandemic http://booksbywomen.org/10-reasons-to-be-less-productive-during-a-pandemic/ http://booksbywomen.org/10-reasons-to-be-less-productive-during-a-pandemic/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:46:14 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30547 1. You fear dying. Especially if you’re as much of a hypochondriac as I am. When I woke up with a headache, sore throat, and the dreaded DRY COUGH a couple of weeks ago, I feared the worst. I spent the next two days drinking lots of fluids, taking my (resolutely normal) temperature, and checking […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/10-reasons-to-be-less-productive-during-a-pandemic/feed/ 0 30547 What Happened When I Gave Up My Amazon Sales Rank for Lent By Sandra Hutchison http://booksbywomen.org/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-my-amazon-sales-rank-for-lent-by-sandra-hutchison/ http://booksbywomen.org/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-my-amazon-sales-rank-for-lent-by-sandra-hutchison/#comments Sat, 31 Aug 2019 08:22:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27839 In 2017 I made a little chunk of money as an indie novelist on Amazon, thanks to my first novel THE AWFUL MESS being in one of their Prime reading promotions. Including that one, I had three stand-alone novels out, and I enjoyed some read-through of the others, too, especially in Kindle Unlimited.  But as […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-my-amazon-sales-rank-for-lent-by-sandra-hutchison/feed/ 4 27839 Fourteen Book Covers for Four Books: A Cautionary Tale about Nudity, Flailing, and Copyright http://booksbywomen.org/fourteen-book-covers-for-four-books-a-cautionary-tale-about-nudity-flailing-and-copyright/ http://booksbywomen.org/fourteen-book-covers-for-four-books-a-cautionary-tale-about-nudity-flailing-and-copyright/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:19:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27875 Years ago, I worked as an acquisitions editor and marketing manager in professional and educational publishing. I approved covers, and I tried to wheedle better covers out of busy and/or stubborn design departments, and I defended covers to a lot of disappointed authors. Most I considered unreasonably disappointed, though at least one was absolutely right […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/fourteen-book-covers-for-four-books-a-cautionary-tale-about-nudity-flailing-and-copyright/feed/ 4 27875 Nuance vs. Propaganda http://booksbywomen.org/nuance-vs-propaganda-by-sandra-hutchison/ http://booksbywomen.org/nuance-vs-propaganda-by-sandra-hutchison/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2019 06:42:54 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=25752 Most novels have a message of some kind, even it’s just “sometimes you have to break yourself out of a bad place to get to a better one.” We all want the stories we’re reading or watching to have some meaning. That’s why we started telling them to each other in the first place. But […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/nuance-vs-propaganda-by-sandra-hutchison/feed/ 2 25752 Can You Think Like A Publisher? http://booksbywomen.org/can-you-think-like-a-publisher-by-sandra-hutchison/ http://booksbywomen.org/can-you-think-like-a-publisher-by-sandra-hutchison/#respond Fri, 05 May 2017 07:28:47 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19134 When you’re an author-publisher, or self-published author, you face nearly all the choices a traditional publisher faces, but in a much more intimate, more personally-invested, more personally-at-risk way. This is a wonderful in some ways, and not so good in others. For about seventeen years in my callow youth I worked in publishing as an […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/can-you-think-like-a-publisher-by-sandra-hutchison/feed/ 0 19134 Why Won’t (Insert Name Here) Read My Book? http://booksbywomen.org/why-wont-insert-name-here-read-my-book-by-sandra-hutchison/ http://booksbywomen.org/why-wont-insert-name-here-read-my-book-by-sandra-hutchison/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2016 06:44:53 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17353 So you wrote the book, which is an amazing accomplishment. You published the book, which is another accomplishment. You also dug in and did your marketing homework and set up a great plan to connect with those readers, and began to get some good reviews, and began to get some sales. Now comes the part […]

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