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Interview and Review

I'm featured in an interview at  Apex Reviews' Above the Fold. Hope you click over and read it!

Apex Reviews also recently reviewed Dream or Destiny.  [image error]

Dream Or Destiny

Lillie Ammann

ISBN: 9781933869032

GASLight Publishing

Reviewed By Josee Morgan

Official Apex Reviews Rating: 5 stars

Marilee Anderson wakes one morning from a horrendous dream, one about a murder so horrific and terrifying, she could swear it was real…to her dismay, not only does she soon discover that it was – she also learns...

Case Study of a Life Story: Part 4 – The Result and Recommendations

Table of contents for Life StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 1 – The BeginningCase Study of a Life Story: Part 2 – Writing the StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 3 – Turning a Story into a BookCase Study of a Life Story: Part 4 – The Result and Recommendations

[image error]Now, long after Borge started recording his life story and a little more than seven months after his first phone call to me, Borge can hold his life story in his hand and share it with those he loves. Borge and Brigitte are...

Case Study of a Life Story: Part 3 – Turning a Story into a Book

Table of contents for Life StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 1 – The BeginningCase Study of a Life Story: Part 2 – Writing the StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 3 – Turning a Story into a Book

As I said in the previous post, the Hansens and I were excited to have a completed story, but it existed on my hard drive and on computer printouts. Borge and Brigitte wanted the story in a book to share with loved ones.

Knowing that they would want fewer than 100 copies, I explained that their...

Case Study of a Life Story: Part 2 – Writing the Story

Table of contents for Life StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 1 – The BeginningCase Study of a Life Story: Part 2 – Writing the Story

[image error]In the first installment of the series, I discussed my first meeting with my client Borge Hansen, who had dictated his life story into audiotapes.

I transcribed the tapes one side at a time. Understanding and spelling the names of places Borge visited and people he encountered in his world travels turned out to be a challenge. Sometimes I had to replay a...

Case Study of a Life Story: Part 1 – The Beginning

Table of contents for Life StoryCase Study of a Life Story: Part 1 – The Beginning

[image error]When people contact me about publishing their memoir or family history, I always encourage them to do so for a family legacy. I make sure they understand that it's highly unlikely their story will be published by a large New York publisher and distributed in bookstores around the country—unless they were famous (or infamous). However, every child, grandchild, and future descendant will treasure the family...

There's Always a Choice

My last post about spam generated some interesting comments.

One commenter suggested that spammers have to spam because they can't afford to pay for backlinks and have no other way to rank well in the search engines. I totally disagree with that position and wrote a long comment in rebuttal. I got on my soapbox so much I decided to move the soapbox to a post instead of a comment.

There are three specific reasons that I disagree with the theory that anyone has to spam.

Reason #1. I don't think...

A Chuckle from Spam

Does anyone really think I will approve comments like the ones below?

The same comments were left a dozen times on different posts using different first names but the same URL, coming from the same IP address.

The worst part is that these comments have been cycling through several Web sites. First they're left by a bunch of first names with the URL of Site A, then the same comments are left by another dozen or so first names from Site B, then on to Site C …

I understand that one writer may...

EPIC eBook Competition

[image error]EPIC™ is currently open for eBook entries for the 2011 eBook Awards Competition until August 15, 2010.

The EPIC eBook competition is the oldest eBook competition still in existence, one that continues to grow every year! Entries are judged by volunteers who are published authors or industry professionals, most of whom are members of EPIC.

If your book was published in electronic format between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2009, check out the guidelines on the EPIC Web site. There are 30+ fiction...

Author Interview: Margaret Blincoe

[image error]My guest today is Margaret Blincoe, a client and a dear friend. We met less than four months ago, but we bonded immediately, and I was excited about her book from the first moment she told me about it. I wrote about Message in a Word in a previous post, but now you can learn more about it from the author.

Lillie: Thank you for visiting A Writer's Words, An Editor's Eye today, Margaret. I know all about how Message in a Word came into being, but my readers don't. Just about all the authors I...

Book Review: Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers

[image error]Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers: Tweaking Your Tweets and Other Tips for Integrating Your Social Media

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

HowToDoItFrugally Publishing

Copyright 2010

ISBN: 9781451546149

Paperback, 130 pages, $12.92

Nonfiction

When I was approached to review this book, I warned the author that I have a strong resistance to Twitter. At various times, I've decided I would start tweeting, only to change my mind before I actually followed through. She was brave enough to want to know ...