Category: Writers’ Tools of the Trade

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Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds 101

Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs are coming to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds! What does that mean? Here’s a quick explanation… CAT JOHNSON’S HOT SEALS ON KINDLE WORLDS On August 4, 2015, Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs Kindle World will officially launch. Authors will be able to write, upload and sell their original stories written within the Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds guidelines and readers get to enjoy even more Hot SEALs stories contributed by some of their favorite authors or by writers who are new to them. The all-star line-up of #HotSEALsKW launch authors includes: Delilah Devlin, Marissa Dobson, Geri Foster, Desiree Holt, Kennedy Layne, Elle James, Olivia Jaymes, J.M. Madden, Becky McGraw, Donna Michaels, Siobhan Muir, Susan Stoker, Paige Tyler and Sabrina York. WHAT IS KINDLE WORLDS? To answer that we first must discuss the concept of FAN FICTION, which is the tradition of fans (of television, comics, and literature) penning their own stories in their favorite fictional worlds. They write for their own satisfaction and to share their words with fellow fans of the worlds in which they are writing, on their blog or on dedicated fan fiction websites. The most famous fan fiction story is of course by E.L. James who originally wrote 50 Shades of Grey […]

Writers' Tools of the Trade

Writers Tools of My Trade: FitDesk

My big investment for my home office this year was this FitDesk. Why? I’ll tell you… We authors live very unhealthy lives because we sit for far more hours a day than recommended by health professionals. After seeing four fellow authors of varying ages (some my own age) have devastating health events over the past 6 months or so (strokes, heart attacks, etc) I got concerned enough I finally took action. I know myself and I’m not going to the gym. Most days I don’t even put on pants. I’m not going out  for a walk. I live in the North East where winter hit us long and hard and though I have 5 acres, I’m located on a very busy county route and I’m not going for a walk in traffic.  I finally settled on and bought the FitDesk stationary bike/computer desk in January, mainly because I knew I’d fly off the treadmill desks I’d seen online and thought I’d be safer sitting down, and also because it was on sale at the time for just over $200 when treadmill desks were more like $1000 and far too large for the space I had. Do I use it? Yes. Daily […]

Writers' Tools of the Trade

Cat Johnson (dot) Net – 2013 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. There were some interesting stats. Take a look! Here’s an excerpt:  This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2013. The number one referrer was Facebook. The most viewed page was the Home page. The most searched terms were Cat Johnson, Cat Johnson Author, Cat Johnson Studs in Spurs…  Click here to see the complete report.