ALT What is #MondayBlogs? Created by author @RachelintheOC/@BadRedheadMedia, who wanted a way for writers/bloggers to grow our followings/visibility. Learn how to use this blog-sharing hashtag - see post https://badredheadmedia.com/2025/07/18/what-is-mondayblogs-and-how-can-writers-participate/ 💥NO book promo, y'all. Use a different hashtag.

ALT 🔵 Why I Donate All My Book Profits to the Wounded Warrior Project | @WorkedForMeBook https://seizingopportunitydaily.substack.com/p/why-i-donate-all-my-book-profits Ever since the publication of my memoir, people have occasionally asked why I chose to donate all book profits to the @WWP. Here's why... #MondayBlogs

ALT 29 Best Tips on How to Cope with Isolation at Home (from People Who Have Done and Will Do This All Their Lives)

ALT Do Traditional Publishers Market Your Book for You? Here’s the Truth | by @BadRedheadMedia https://geni.us/TradPublishers What publishers provide, what they don’t, and why authors still need their own marketing strategy. #MondayBlogs

ALT #MondayBlogs Why Writers Should Watch "Station Eleven:" Storytelling, World-Building, & the Star Trek Motto That Defines It | by @RachelintheOC / @BadRedheadMedia https://geni.us/StationElevenSubstack Why a single line from Star Trek became the beating heart of a dystopian masterpiece.

ALT Hypatia of Alexandria: Philosopher, Mathematician, and Martyr: Brilliant Mind in a Turbulent Era | @CHillbergAuthor https://camillahillberg.com/pdf/hypatia-article-by-camilla-hillberg.pdf "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." #MondayBlogs

ALT Last night I dreamt of you, after all these years, and you were lying in my arms... and it was like something out of a romance novel, only better because, at last, you were mine. In the Thin Places (memoir, in poem) | @DrAlexandriaSZ https://buff.ly/3OYJUFv #MondayBlogs

ALT Effective Outlining Techniques for Writers: Examples and Expert Resources | by Rachel Thompson @RachelintheOC aka @BadRedheadMedia https://badredheadmediallc.substack.com/p/5-effective-outlining-techniques If you’re new to writing, the outlining process can feel overwhelming. #MondayBlogs

ALT 🔵 NEW: Nobody Knows the Video I’ve Seen: Inside High-Stakes Security, Surveillance, and Trust https://buff.ly/YGCXMRM by @ItWorkedForMeBook by Jeff Burgess via @Substack Apparently, in some ways, the book must have failed me, as its purpose was to cleanse forty-five years in the computer industry from my system. Yet, some two and a half years after retiring, I still have vivid memories, primarily of those BCDVideo years leading up to my retirement in July 2023.

ALT #MondayBlogs 🔵 The Risk That Saved Dostoyevsky: How Anna Dostoyevskaya’s quiet courage reclaimed her husband’s life’s work | @AndrewDKaufman https://ow.ly/yQSH50YwsP0 The most important risk in Dostoyevsky’s life wasn’t taken by him. A young stenographer named Anna stepped in to help him meet a brutal publishing deadline that could have cost him the rights to his own work. What followed was one of the most intense writing sprints in literary history. It changed the course of Dostoyevsky’s life. In 1873, 26-year-old Anna Dostoyevskaya faced a decision that could have either rescued her young family—or ruined it. I wrote about another risk Anna took after their marriage—and the moment when it almost cost them everything. 📕 Read more: https://ow.ly/yQSH50YwsP0 @bsgspeakers

ALT Nefertiti: Egypt's Revolutionary Queen of Beauty and Power: The Woman Behind Ancient Egypt's Religious Revolution | @CHillbergAuthor https://camillahillberg.com/pdf/nefertiti-article-by-camilla-hillberg.pdf "Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come." #MondayBlogs

ALT Kremlinology - aka, What Not to Do When a Potential Partner Isn’t Responding | Mike Grossman https://failureisanoptionbook.substack.com/p/kremlinology The term, coined during the Soviet era, refers to the practice of “using public clues to decipher what is actually happening behind the scenes.” #MondayBlogs