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Our $uccess blog will feature writing, marketing, and publishing tips we continue to learn since writing our 2009 INDIE Finalist workbook $uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book keeping our readers abreast of the everchanging skills required to write, publish and sell a successful book. We will also have guest commentators. Achieving your goals as a writer is what matters. Anything we can do to help you get there is our goal. We welcome your comments and hope you will sign up for our bi-monthly (or whenever we have enough material) newsletter.

Archive for February, 2010

Success Tip – Ideas Strike at Unusual Times

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010


Maralyn and Brenda teach writing workshops in Florida, Arizona and Add Imagethis month at Mexico’s Rancho La Puerta, February 27 – March 6.

One of the tips they recommend is to keep a note pad and writing instrument on the bedside table. H.J.Brown, Jr. ,writes that “Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.”

They also stress that their “overnight success” with their Success book took about five years.

Brenda C. Hill
International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association
Books By Hills Success With Writing
Where and What in the World


Finalist in the Writing and Publishing category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, “$uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book.”

Success Tip by Thomas Jefferson on Attitude

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

For me personally, attitude can make or break a deal. I have difficulty working with someone with a bad mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson says it as well as anyone:

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson

Maralyn D. Hill, President
International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association
Books By Hills Success With Writing Where & What in the World
Member: Society of Professional Journalists

Finalist in the Writing and Publishing category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards,
“$uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book,”

Success Tip from Jackson Brown

Sunday, February 21st, 2010


Sometimes we are working so hard towards achieving success, where discover we are off course. The following quote reinforces the need to stay on the right course.

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Maralyn D. Hill, President
International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association
Books By Hills Success With Writing Where & What in the World
Member: Society of Professional Journalists

Finalist in the Writing and Publishing category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards,
“$uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book,”