I don’t often make a big deal out of the calendar flipping over–sometimes I even sleep through it. Most of the time I look at it as an opportunity to make personal resolutions. It’s fun to join in as we…
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Be Prepared: Six Medical and Home Safety Tips to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (or Just Real Life)
Fair warning: this post doesn’t have any guns with super cool self-feeding ammo, or arcane advice on how to survive THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. But it’s important nonetheless. If the civilized world does come to…
Tagged with: Cathleen Townsend, dental, home safety, medical prepping, vaccines
Posted in Being Prepared, Uncategorized
Posted in Being Prepared, Uncategorized
Be Prepared: The Emergency Bag
I’ve spent a lot of time reviewing blog posts and YouTube channels devoted to prepping, and I’ve reached some initial conclusions about the subject. First of all, prepping can get super expensive very fast. It’s easy to go overboard. Somewhere…
Tagged with: bug out bag, camping, camping with dogs, car camping, Cathleen Townsend, emergency bag, emergency preparedness, get home bag
Posted in Being Prepared, Uncategorized
Posted in Being Prepared, Uncategorized
Bellerophon: Son of Poseidon is out!
I finally got this one published–my first novel. I drafted it four years ago, and it’s been a long revision process, with a steep learning curve. But I think it’s pretty good now, and even though it’s me saying it,…
Tagged with: ancient Greece, Bellerophon, Cathleen Townsend, folklore and mythology, heroes and demigods, son of Poseidon
Posted in My Books
Posted in My Books
Don’t Make My Mistake
I’ve been posting about free newsletter marketing lately, but I did try my first paid marketing campaign, for The Golden Key, this past summer. It had a couple of high moments, but overall I made a blunder that I’d like…
Tagged with: Amazon Look Inside, book promotion, Cathleen Townsend, newsletter marketing
Posted in promotion
Posted in promotion
Free Promos Part 3–The Quest for Rank
Ah…the dream. The captivating thought that you’ll click onto your book listing and discover that you’ve penned a book that shot up to number one. But as time goes on, you discover increments. Maybe not number one in the whole…
Tagged with: book marketing, book promotion, Cathleen Townsend, free promotion, top-rated, Twelve Tales of Christmas
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Free Promos Part 2–Promoting a Book the Second Time
Following the success of my free Golden Key promotion (A Totally Free Promo) I decided to repeat the same promo for Dragon Hoard, now that I was armed with better information about what the individual promoters could reasonably achieve. This…
