The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: promotion

  • It’s the Readers Who Make the Magic

    If you have somehow managed to escape all my shameless self-promotion in recent months, here’s what you need to know: I wrote a book! A Bridgetender’s View: Notes on Gratitude is available on Amazon.com in paperback form, and soon it will also be available as an e-book for Kindle, and Amy Sassenberg’s photos will be…

  • I’m Tweeting

    I have been Twitter-resistant for years. I just didn’t see the point. Between this blog and Facebook and e-mail and Second Life, I already felt as if my social media world was rich and nuanced. I also worried that if I added one more thing, my introverted little self would be crushed under the sheer…

  • Spiting Yourself

    I know someone who was passed over for a promotion that everyone assumed he would get. He’d earned it. He deserved it. He had been doing that job without the promotion for well over a year. But when the time came, someone else got hired. He even had to train that person. Needless to say,…

  • “You Have a Book in You.”

    Since about the age of 8 I’ve been told I should be a writer. Indeed, I’ve had a few articles published, but nothing for pay. And of course there’s this blog, which is a creative outlet that I have found I can no longer do without. In every job I’ve had I seem to eventually…

  • Humbly Reaching Out

    From a recent conversation with my boyfriend: Me: All of a sudden so many good things are happening in my life! I’ve got that job interview, I got a promotion in my captioning job, I got my 100th follower on my blog, and I just saved a couple hundred bucks by transferring a credit card…