Sherry Roberts's Blog, page 2
September 29, 2023
Up There: Born with the Gift of Flight
“What I did on my summer vacation” has been replaced with “What I did during the pandemic.” Some writers couldn’t concentrate on their craft during the lockdowns, the shortages (I am still stockpiling toilet paper), and the warnings to mask. I, on the other hand, hunkered down and hammered out the first draft of a […]
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September 5, 2023
Up There: Born with the Gift of Flight
“What I did on my summer vacation” has been replaced with “What I did during the pandemic.” Some writers couldn’t concentrate on their craft during the lockdowns, the shortages (I am still stockpiling toilet paper), and the warnings to mask. I, on the other hand, hunkered down and hammered out the first draft of a […]
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July 9, 2023
Why We Love Amateur Detectives
Not all detectives in fiction are cops. In a world of Hercule Poirot, there is room for wonderful amateur sleuths: yoga teachers, Egyptologists, ministers.
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November 19, 2019
Why I Became an Indie Author
You can call us self-published. You can call us indie authors. You can call us rebels. I think I have had indie blood in me long before I watched Easy Rider and bought my first suede leather fringe jacket.
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August 8, 2017
Maudie: A Romance with Art
Maudie is a quiet yet moving film about Canada's most famous folk artist. Meet the inspiration for the artist in my book Maud's House.
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July 28, 2017
How Yoga and Patanjali Can Help Your Writing
The Yoga Sutras are guides for living a right life, but I have found they also offer new perspectives on writing.
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June 23, 2016
5 Steps to a Great Book Cover
Book covers are marketing tools. They sell books. How do you create eye-catching covers? Here are a few tips.
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February 22, 2016
Where Ideas Come From: A Lesson from O. Henry
Unlike O. Henry, most of us are not short story factories. But we can learn a lot from looking at how this famous writer approached storytelling.
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February 7, 2016
Surviving Book Awards
There are many book award programs. Should you enter them? Here's a behind-the-scenes peek at book awards.
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May 19, 2014
Book Club #2: What Is Harry Potter Without Hogwarts?
Some settings infiltrate the heart of a book. Here are some atmospheric reads to add to your book list.
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