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September 14, 2012
Interview with ‘Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down’Pauline L. Hawkins: ‘We have yet to fully grieve’
Pauline L. Hawkins was born in Munson Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on Easter Sunday. Pauline has been in the health insurance industry for almost thirty years, working her way up from the mailroom to corporate management and claims payment. In 2002, Pauline received her Instructional Design certification, which allows her to create instructor-led and learner-paced training curricula, along with computer-based learning activities and website creation. Pauline has enjoyed writi...
September 13, 2012
My Publishing Journey – Things I Learned Along the Way
Author Bud Bradshaw
By Bud Bradshaw
There is no one way to write a book. Some writers are able to work within the confines of a strict regimen, and that’s fine.They write at a certain time and place each day, rain or shine, and that is the discipline best for them. Conversely, others find that working more sporadically, but in larger chunks of time, is more productive. Wherever yourcomfort zone might be,remember that, above all, be patient and allow yourself some lattitude. This is the natu...
September 12, 2012
Interview with Julie L. Cannon: ‘My children view my writing as a crazy way to make a living’
Julie L. Cannon is a bestselling author, speaker and teacher. She believes that using your memories to write autobiographical fiction is both cathartic and powerful, and when Julie isn’t busy writing, she can be found leading memoir workshops, encouraging others to encourage others on this journey called Life. Julie has captured many awards in the ABA as well as the CBA. She loves growing flowers and listening to country music at her home off Hog Mountain Road in Watkinsville, Georgia.
Her...
Kindle Fire HD giveaway from ‘The Baby Matrix’ Laura Carroll today!
Laura Carroll is stopping off today at The Writer’s Life as part of her colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where she is giving away a Kindle Fire HD!
Enter every day at a different blog for more entries!
If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://thewriterslife.blogspot.com/2012/09/interview-with-laura-carroll-win-free.html.
This contest begins July 2 and ends on September 28 2012.
An extra bonus prize: $50 goes one lucky person who leaves a comment on...
September 11, 2012
Interview with Carol Tibaldi: ‘Covers are very important.’
Carol Tibaldi was born and raised in Bayside, New York and attended Queens College of the City University of New York. She loves to travel and has lived in London and Los Angeles. For twenty five years she worked as a newspaper reporter and covered the crime beat. She is a history buff and loves to research different time periods having a special affinity of the prohibition era and the Civil War. Willow Pond is her first novel and she is hard at work on the sequel.
Find more about Ms Tibal...
10 Things you Didn’t Know about Falstaff’s Big Gamble
Falstaff's Big Gamble
About Falstaff’s Big Gamble
This novel is Shakespeare’s Worst Nightmare.
It takes two of the Bard’s most famous plays, Hamlet and Othello, and recasts them in Gundarland. There, Hamlet becomes a dwarf and Othello a dark elf and Iago and his wife, Emilia, are trolls.
If that isn’t bad enough, these two tragedies are now comedies with Falstaff, Shakespeare’s most popular rogue, thrown in as a bonus.
Both Hamlet and Othello are plagued by the scheming Falstaff, who embezzles...
September 7, 2012
Win Kindle Fire HD: Sandy Nathan & Tales From Earth’s End Series Blog Tour
Sandy Nathan, author of the Tales From Earth’s End series, is stopping off today at Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf, as part of her colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where she will be giving away a new Kindle Fire HD!
Visit today’s stop at
http://melissaseclecticbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/09/advice-about-writing-from-my-mom-guest.html.
Enter every day at a different blog for more entries!
This contest begins September 4 and ends on November 30 2012.
An extra bonus prize:...
September 6, 2012
Top Ten Behind-the-Scenes Moments of The Hands of Tarot
SM Blooding, author of The Hands of Tarot, is my guest today! Welcome SM!
Top Ten Behind-the-Scenes Moments of The Hands of Tarot
By SM Blooding
10. Destroy, destroy, DESTROY!
I’m a very anal outliner. Before I write a chapter, I have to craft the outline. Now, granted, there’s still a lot of room to wiggle with and not all my scenes follow the “script”, but it’s there for me anyway, giving me and the characters the direction we need.
However, th...
September 4, 2012
Interview with Mark Connelly: ‘I was first interested in IRA when I saw The Night Fighters’
Born in Philadelphia, Mark Connelly completed a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he received a Ph.D in English. His books include The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, Deadly Closets: The Fiction of Charles Jackson, and several college textbooks. He currently teaches literature and film in Milwaukee, where he is the Vice-President of the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center of Wisconsin.
His latest book is...
Interview with Dystopian Thriller Author Helen Smith: ‘If you’re sad, I can make you happy’
Helen Smith is a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and English PEN. She traveled the world when her daughter was small, doing all sorts of strange jobs to support them both – from cleaning motels to working as a magician’s assistant – before returning to live in London where she wrote her first novel which was published by Gollancz (part of the Hachette Group).
She is the author of bestselling cult novel Alison Wonderland. She writes novels, poetry, plays and screenplays and is...
