Harriet Hodgson – Author Spotlight

Expert Author Harriet Hodgson, BS, MA, is in today's Author Spotlight.

Harriet is not your typical article marketer. She started out as a teacher and earned a BS with honors from Wheelock College in Boston, MA. She went on to earn an MA in Art Education from the University of Minnesota and did additional graduate work. After spending a dozen years in the classroom, she changed careers and turned to writing.

She's now been an Independent Journalist for more than 30 years and is the author of 27 published books and hundreds of print and electronic articles. She's a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Amazingly, she is also an active GRG (grandparent raising grandchildren) of teens.

Harriet's education and life experience give her a unique and wise position from which to write her articles. In many ways she is a model for combining article marketing with passion and expertise to benefit not only herself, but her readers as well.

You may not have the benefits of Harriet’s education and expertise (few of us do!), but that doesn’t mean you can’t experience comparable success with your article marketing.

Here are 5 lessons from Harriet that you can put into practice today:

1. Write about what you know and are passionate about.
    
2. Just write! Sometimes opportunities come from unexpected directions.
    
3. Don’t make excuses for not writing articles. Everybody has demands on their time, energy and concentration.
    
4. Strive for quality and read your articles aloud before you submit them.
    
5. Enter your author name in search engines and use what you find to gain new information.

Now put these lessons to good use by writing a whole new crop of fresh, high-quality articles. Speaking of crops, don’t forget to make hay while the sun shines! Article review times are still less than 24 business hours, so now’s the time to get that backlog of articles written and submitted.

Harriet Hodgson – Author Spotlight

We asked Harriet to share some of her experience and expertise with the rest of the EzineArticles community.

And leave a comment for Harriet. I’m sure she’d love to hear from you. :)