✍BadRedhead Media, Strategic Marketing Consultant

MOSTLY ON SUBSTACK. Marketing consultant, author of 8 books; 3 just for writers | aka @RachelintheOC | Founder #MondayBlogs

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🔵 Is Artificial Intelligence Really Awful Intelligence? You Decide…by @WorkedForMeBook by Jeff Burgess https://t.co/opZRnIcMTb

Technology should be a tool, not a substitute for human judgment, creativity, and common sense..

[Rachel Thompson | Author & Book Marketing Expert @RachelintheOC]

🌞 NEW: How to Grow Your Newsletter Without Losing Your Creative Soul by @BadRedheadMedia https://t.co/KsDBbSR20y

A kind, steady approach to building your audience while protecting your energy...

Growing your newsletter, on Substack or elsewhere, can feel like standing at a crossroads: one path looks like relentless “growth hacking” in blinking neon lights, and the other, staying true to your voice, even when the algorithm and “do-this, do-that” posts whisper otherwise.

A: Must it be one or the other?

B: Can both be true?

C: I’ve written a book, so why do I need to write a newsletter?

D: All of the above?

The truth sits somewhere in the middle, and that’s where our core values, goals, and reality hang out. What do you wish from others? What do you give? Focus there...

Shout out to my sponsors, @Booklinker and @GeniusLink - love and use both daily. Click or see bio for the rest! Always free to read and subscribe.

[Rachel Thompson | Author & Book Marketing Expert @RachelintheOC]

🗝️ FREE NOW: 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝘽𝙤𝙭 (𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙊'𝘿𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 2)! https://t.co/rywaF9w3nF by @SheilaSharpe19

A memory. A whisper. The click of a lock. Dive into this gripping art crime thriller.

Are you ready to open the box?

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It's Thursday! Joining my friends @MadalynSklar, @FuhsionMktg , @Bez_Rengifo, abd @RachelintheOC LIVE for AI Shortcuts to Work Smarter with Madalyn

[Rachel Thompson | Author & Book Marketing Expert @RachelintheOC]

🔵 NEW: Is Artificial Intelligence Really Awful Intelligence? You Decide... by @WorkedForMeBook by Jeff Burgess https://t.co/0R3mpHgsgD

Artificial Intelligence was invented at an academic workshop organized by IBM back in 1956, a year before I was born. This wasn’t the plan...

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🔵 @DEALSHARINGAUNT gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️to 𝙄𝙩 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙚! by @WorkedForMeBook

"A lot of good advice in this book. My favorite part is that the author took advice from his dad, and it changed his life..."

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["It Worked For Me" Biz Memoir, now available! @WorkedForMeBook]

5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"What makes this book stand out is how personal and practical it is."

~ KlaRo, on Amazon US, Review of IT WORKED FOR ME, by Jeff Burgess @WorkedForMeBook

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["It Worked For Me" Biz Memoir, now available! @WorkedForMeBook]

🔵 Is Artificial Intelligence Really Awful Intelligence? You Decide…by @WorkedForMeBook by Jeff Burgess https://t.co/iWUSHRee43

Technology should be a tool, not a substitute for human judgment, creativity, and common sense..

[✍BadRedhead Media, Strategic Marketing Consultant @BadRedheadMedia]

Livestream with Madalyn Sklar https://t.co/d706pNayE7

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🍃 Featured Excerpt of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 by Margaret Whitford (@SheWritesPress) via @Sanctuary2016 https://t.co/feI1kkT3h4

A World of Two

I picture my mother lying on her hospital bed, the same one she has occupied for the last twelve days. The space is in shadow, the only light coming from the hallway. The room smells empty. No flowers or scented candles—she wouldn’t have wanted those.

The sound of retreating footfalls in the corridor or a muffled voice from another part of the hospital occasionally interrupts the silence. Her breathing is shallow, until the moment it stops altogether. It happens so quietly, no one notices at first.

When my mother died in Concord, I was an ocean away, in a Paris hotel. Another day had already started. That remove feels familiar—geography and time following an established pattern.

In the morning’s early hours, I lay next to my husband, Tom, on a king-sized bed in a room of marble-inlaid tables and still-life paintings in gilded frames, the walls covered in red-and-gold-striped paper. I heard only the sounds of the night, a faint breeze moving through the magnolia trees in the courtyard and an occasional car gliding along the boulevard.

While Tom slept, I lay awake, thinking about my mother. I had started to understand that we wouldn’t make it back in time. My mother would either be dead or so unresponsive that there could be no last words between us...

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A memory. A whisper. The click of a lock. Dive into this gripping art crime thriller.

Are you ready to open the box?

[✍BadRedhead Media, Strategic Marketing Consultant @BadRedheadMedia]

🌞 NEW: How to Grow Your Newsletter Without Losing Your Creative Soul by @BadRedheadMedia https://t.co/JrR1ufQVZI

A kind, steady approach to building your audience while protecting your energy...

Growing your newsletter, on Substack or elsewhere, can feel like standing at a crossroads: one path looks like relentless “growth hacking” in blinking neon lights, and the other, staying true to your voice, even when the algorithm and “do-this, do-that” posts whisper otherwise.

A: Must it be one or the other?

B: Can both be true?

C: I’ve written a book, so why do I need to write a newsletter?

D: All of the above?

The truth sits somewhere in the middle, and that’s where our core values, goals, and reality hang out. What do you wish from others? What do you give? Focus there...

Shout out to my sponsors, @Booklinker and @GeniusLink - love and use both daily. Click or see bio for the rest! Always free to read and subscribe.

[✍BadRedhead Media, Strategic Marketing Consultant @BadRedheadMedia]

🍃 A Daughter Confronts The Legacy Of Her Mother’s Trauma In New Memoir “The History We Carry” (@SheWritesPress) https://t.co/r9DaeC7jd7 featuring Margaret Whitford, Author
via @GirlTalkHQ

I suggest that writing any memoir, regardless of the exploration undertaken, is emotionally complex. The writer searches for truth concerning some part of her life, and that search frequently involves uncovering and examining aspects of the past that are painful.

I also find that if the material does not engage the writer emotionally, even haunt her as something that needs to be understood, it will not engage readers. Readers tend to recognize when a writer is withholding.

In undertaking a memoir about my relationship with my mother, I knew that I would have to delve into her traumatic past and also challenge long-held assumptions I had about the two of us. I may not have been fully aware of this necessity when I started writing; however, the depth and intensity of the work I would need to undertake soon became apparent...

Click for the rest!

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"This quick-paced, wily tale is a fascinating blend of both fact and fiction that is sure to engage Western and historical fiction fans and readers."

– @LibraryJournal review, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘱 by @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel

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"This quick-paced, wily tale is a fascinating blend of both fact and fiction that is sure to engage Western and historical fiction fans and readers."

– @LibraryJournal review, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘱 by @KarenKondazian1 | @TheWhipNovel

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📚 The characters are smart and interesting; I didn’t know who to trust! The story and situations grabbed my attention as I tried to figure out what was real...

~ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5-Star @Goodreads Review, "Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief" by @SheilaSharpe19

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[Rachel Thompson | Author & Book Marketing Expert @RachelintheOC]

🔵 Broken People and Why We Write About Them https://t.co/AJoWlefTlv by J. Herman Kleiger

I just finished another book! The latest (maybe last?) in my psychological suspense/thriller series, Pareidolia. A Tale of Illusions, Deceptions, and Lies begins this way:

“Pain gripped her chest like a vice. Just make it stop. A single bullet through the heart could end it all. She felt the deadly weight of the .38 Special on her lap. She ran her fingers along the smooth barrel, tracing the trigger, as the wind shook the trees and rain battered the window.”

Whew! So dark. To say the least, my protagonist is struggling to hold on. To make matters worse, she is plagued by self-doubt and uncertainty about what is real and what is illusory, while being buffeted by internal conflicts and ensnared in a trap set for her by malevolent forces intent on her destruction...

with shoutouts to @SheilaSharpe19 and @RachelintheOC

Click to read the rest (always free)

[Sheila Sharpe, Mystery Author ✍️ @SheilaSharpe19]

Available NOW: 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝘽𝙤𝙭 (𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙊'𝘿𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 2)! https://t.co/CgiwpcsPj7 by
@SheilaSharpe19

A memory. A whisper. The click of a lock. Dive into this gripping art crime thriller.

Are you ready to open the box?

[✍BadRedhead Media, Strategic Marketing Consultant @BadRedheadMedia]

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Are you ready to open the box?

“An exceptionally clever psych thriller..."

-- @Booklife

[Sheila Sharpe, Mystery Author ✍️ @SheilaSharpe19]

🗝️ Available NOW: 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝘽𝙤𝙭 (𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙊'𝘿𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 2)! https://t.co/Cgiwpcshtz by @SheilaSharpe19

Are you ready to open the box?

“An exceptionally clever psych thriller..."

-- @Booklife