Entries by Karina Fabian

Blogging for Beginners: Stats & Stuff

In my less compulsive moments, I like to think that I don’t care about my blog stats. And really, I blog anyway. Even though they’re not spectacular or crashing the server with their high numbers. It’s not about the numbers. Go ahead. Laugh. I just did. Because it’s SO EASY to forget. What they are: Stats […]

Committees: Introduction by Karina Fabian

I’m Karina Fabian, and I’ll be posting on second Fridays (and perhaps other times) about what’s going on with the committees of the Catholic Writers Guild. Committees are the hands and feet of the Guild—they do things and take us forward.  When you see someone announce that they’re book received the Seal of Approval or […]

Living Life Offline

  My husband made a comment in a teasing sort of way, mid-December, that there was no way I could spend a week offline. I needed no further impetus to answer a pull I’d been feeling for a while. I spent the week between Christmas and New Years mostly offline. I didn’t read blogs, post status […]

The “Control” of Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing is so easy nowadays that anyone can publish his or her own book.  Because of that,  many self-published authors are producing poor quality books.  This can give self-publishing a bad name. In some respects, self-publishing is more difficult than publishing with traditional publishers. After all, publishers take care of the editing, cover design and […]

Vice President’s Column

Do you make resolutions for the New Year? One resolution that I would encourage all CWG members to make is to write more.  Anne Faye, in a recent CWG post, talks about the value of finding 15 minutes a day to write. Whether it’s a journal, blog, essays, articles, short stories, a play, a non-fiction […]

Taking My Own Advice (and an Invitation to You!)

It’s December and, thanks to mysterious graces from above, I’m less stressed than I was at the beginning of Advent. I found my Advent wreath! And I set it up! (Yes, it was well into the second week of Advent before I did, as the picture proves.) We’ve made it through one family Christmas, with […]

President’s Column: Ineffable Twaddlings

by Ann Margaret Lewis, CWG President By the time you all read this Thanksgiving will be over, Advent and our new translation of the Mass hours away and December descending quickly upon us. However, before the New Year starts, I want to offer some resolutions to you as your newly re-elected president. (For those of […]

Avoiding Holiday Hangover on Your Blog

You schedule things ahead of time, get yourself raring to go, and then you walk away from your virtual world for a while. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I think it’s a good thing to do from time to time. But have you noticed how you feel sort of hungover when you get back […]