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October 24, 2009
Welcome to the Business of Writing
To celebrate the eighth day of the Daughter Am I blog tour, I am treating myself to a guest here on Bertram's Blog. That means one less post I have to write. Oh, joy! While Claire Collins is guesting here, I will be at her blog talking about How Best to Procrastinate. When you get a moment, please visit Claire's Blog and join in the fun.
Claire Collins is the author of Images of Betrayal and Fate and Destiny, both published by Second Wind Publishing. Claire says:
Welcome to the Business of...
Reviewing Interviews
I made it through the first week of my blog tour!! I'm getting to the hard part, though. I have several interviews coming up, and it's challenging keep from making identical responses to identical questions. There really is only one story behind the writing of Daughter Am I – I wanted to use the true tales of the Syndicate an historian friend used to tell me, and I wanted to do a mythic journey, so I combined the two ideas into the book – but I don't want to bore people bycontinually...
October 23, 2009
Haven't a Clue about Cluculz
My blog tour is really starting to heat up! Lots of activity, more than I'm used to, that's for sure. To start out, I am a guest at the blog of my good friend Joylene Nowell Butler author of Dead Witness. We first met when she submitted a character interview to my Pat Bertram Introduces . . . blog. Usually I have to twist people's arms to get them to send me an interview to post, but she voluntarily responded to a link I left on a discussion on Facebook — which impressed the heck out of me...
Haven't a Clue about Culcluz
My blog tour is really starting to heat up! Lots of activity, more than I'm used to, that's for sure. To start out, I am a guest at the blog of my good friend Joylene Nowell Butler author of Dead Witness. We first met when she submitted a character interview to my Pat Bertram Introduces . . . blog. Usually I have to twist people's arms to get them to send me an interview to post, but she voluntarily responded to a link I left on a discussion on Facebook — which impressed the heck out of me...
October 22, 2009
ASK PAT
This is not a real bloggery. It is a placeholder for questions and comments from readers of a column I am writing for a new ezine. The column is called ASK PAT, and it's pretty much self-explanatory. Ask Pat for writing tips, for suggestions on how to overcome writer's block, what to do when your spouse belittles your work. (Yeah, right, like I'd really answer that one! You know better than what it takes to deal with him or her.)
I'll let you know when the ezine is published. Until then, if...
Dialogue with Pat Bertram
The Internet is such a wonderful place. Today, day five of my blog tour, I am in Florida with author Nancy J. Cohen talking about dialogue. Virtually speaking, that is. Physically, I am in Colorado, listening to leaves falling like rain. In Florida, it's a sunny day at the beach. At least I hope it is. I sure would hate to get caught in a hurricane while I'm visiting!
Yesterday someone commented that a virtual book tour seemed like a lot of work and asked if I would do it again. My first...
October 20, 2009
Snow White and the Seven Old Fogies
Mary stared open-mouthed into the hole in the wall. Instead of the dining room, which should have been on the other side of the wall, there was a windowless room not much bigger than a walk-in-closet.
"A secret room," she breathed. "It's like something out of Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys."
That brief excerpt from Daughter Am I has nothing to do with my blog today. It's a clue for a Halloween contest at the Second Wind Blog starting on October 26. I hope you will play. It should be an...
Following the Quest in Daughter Am I
Again I will be at Malcom's Round Table discussing Daughter Am I, but this time we will be focusing on the quest angle. The hero's path, the mythic journey, the quest — these are all different names for a particular form of story, though the format is so infinitely changeable, that unless you search for all the elements, you might not see the similarities in such diverse stories as Star Wars, Tin Cup, and Daughter Am I. All, however, follow the hero's path.
This virtual book tour is...
October 19, 2009
Pat Bertram, Gangsters, and 'Daughter Am I'
Day Two of my Virtual Book Tour, and I am still going strong. This is like saying: I've just run the second block of a marathon and am still going strong. Most of the tour is still ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to seeing what happens, to meeting new people, and visiting new blogs.
Today I am at Malcolm's Round Table for a discussion of gangsters and Daughter Am I. I'd hoped to include more of Malcolm's book, Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire, in the discussion, but he was kind...
October 18, 2009
Blog Tour 2009
Today is the first day of the Daughter Am I blog tour, and frankly, I'm a bit nervous. Although I always intended to post to my own blog every day, I've only managed to average three or four times a week, yet here I have committed myself to thirty-five days of guest blogging, together with at least a brief post here to keep everyone up-to-date on my touring activities. That is a total of 70 bloggeries in 35 days! Do you think I can do it? Of course I can — I will have to.
Today I am honored...
