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April 30, 2015
#Read ‘Secrets & Lies in El Salvador’ by #Author Sherrie Miranda Book Promo…
I am reposting on my blog as I have new followers. Plus my posts are now going to FB, Twitter, LinkedIn & Google. I hope you enjoy what I have to say. Thanks, Chris, once again, for being the author’s advocate out in cyberspace. ;-)
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Novels actually have several themes. At least mine does. Sometimes a theme emerges that the author wasn’t conscious of. A theme that came into my story inadvertently is: “We can choose family.”
It makes perfect sense though because I had a great grandfather who I loved dearly that in truth was no relation to me. My great grandmother had already been married three or four times and she wasn’t about to marry another man. In fact, her husband lived in one of the cabins the two men built and they remained best friends their entire lives.
Like Shelly, my protagonist, I only found out this “lie” when I was in my twenties. Also, like Shelly, it made no difference once I accepted the truth.
Geraldina (who introduced me at my book launch party – you can read her intro on my WP blog) is my ex- husband’s sister. But she…
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Online Book Marketing versus Traditional Book Marketing Infographic
Chris, I can always count on you to help us authors out! Thank you very much. Great graphics showing how to work both sides of the media for getting the most out of marketing. ;-)
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
April 29, 2015
Seven Steps to the Perfect Story? Infograph
This is the best set of graphics and description I’ve ever seen! And to have it all in one place. Dang, when I think of all the researching I did to try to get it right! Cest la vie! ;-)
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
April 27, 2015
Do You Love Your Book?
I have to admit I love my book too much. Always have. It was in my mind for more than 30 years that I would write this story of the Salvadoran civil war. I had no idea though that it would end up looking like it does though. I am very proud of my first baby and looking forward to working on the prequel again, very soon. ;-)
Originally posted on My first book took the longest time to write because I spent a lot of time angsting over every tiny little detail of it, and backtracking all the time, although angst or not, I loved every step of the process. These days I write much faster. A couple of times though, I’ve started a story and it’s taken days just to get a paragraph down. I’m a stubborn old mule though so I generally used to try and persevere, and force myself on. Not anymore though. Even though I’m one of the write every day tribe whether you feel like it or not, and I do write every day, I don’t see any point in carrying on with writing something I don’t love just because I started it.
It got me wondering how many writers try to force themselves to write something that they really don’t want to write, thinking…
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April 25, 2015
Joan Didion’s Cure for Bankrupt Mornings
I wanted to wait to reblog this when I had no other posts. Joan Didion influenced the world in ways we don’t even know. ;-)
Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Joan Didion in 2005. Photo by Kathy Willens/Associated Press
Sometimes words fly from your fingers into the keyboard, the ink runs from your pen in a continuous flow, and your imagination fills the screen or page as if by magic. Sometimes when you sit down to write, inspiration is absent or obstinate, hiding and refusing to surface. American author Joan Didion refers to these times as “bankrupt mornings.” She counsels writers on keeping a notebook as a prophylactic against truant inspiration:
See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write — on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world…
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