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July 12, 2021
Julia Royston ~ Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers
Julia Royston has more books than I can keep track of. In her usual giving spirit, she’s included an extra Q&A for you lucky readers.
Of all the stories you could have told, why THIS one?
Live Your Best Life is still a work in progress. The 10 things that I have included in this book are just what I know so far in my 58 years of life. I have a lot more living to do an...
July 7, 2021
Top Ten Inspirational Writing Haunts
Where do you get your ideas? Every writer is asked this question. There are a lot of funny answers (Joan Hess claimed to be a member of the Idea-of-the-Month Club), but the one true answer is: Everywhere. Daniel Ingram-Brown was kind enough to provide solid examples of Idea Finding in this post.
From tumble-down manor houses to tropical islands, from ruined abbeys to capital cities, places have always been a big inspiration for my writing...
June 28, 2021
Top 10 Online Marketing Tips for Authors
Most writers are stunned when they learn that they are expected to do more than just write. Yes, folks–writers are expected to become marketing experts. Carma Spence, author of Home Sweet Home Page, has graciously offered ten tips that will help authors and others with the requisite task of self and book promotion.
Because of Amazon, online marketing has been important for authors for a long time. However, because of the pandemic lockdowns, it has become even more so. ...
June 23, 2021
Your Writing Matters: How to Banish Self-Doubt, Trust Yourself, and Go the Distance
I’m convinced that what a writer needs more than pen, paper, keyboard, oxygen, or even chocolate is a waiting audience. We need to know that our words are valued by a reader, that our craft is received with appreciation by at least one human being. Colleen M Story’s title gets right to the heart of it, and I’m happy to tell you that she delivers in full.
What would it take to keep you motivated, passionate, and convinced of your worth as a writer? How about a list of wa...
June 18, 2021
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn h...
June 16, 2021
Your Writing Matters: How to Banish Self-Doubt, Trust Yourself, and Go the Distance
Does your future as a writer feel uncertain?
You write day after day. You dream of bestseller’s lists and royalty checks, but despite your best marketing efforts, those dreams remain out of reach.
You wonder if you’re wasting your time. Does your writing even matter?
Author Colleen M. Story, a long-time professional writer and writing coach, helps you decide whether you truly have a writer’s DNA. She examines why you feel pressured to make money with your work, why the search for a read...
June 14, 2021
Trash to Treasure
In just 30 years, the world’s annual output of waste will reach an estimated 3.4 billion tons. This global tsunami of waste threatens our environment, our economy, even our relationships. To survive, we must not only contain it but do something with it.
The average American throws away over seven pounds of trash EVERY DAY. To figure out whether or not you are average, just collect your personal daily trash and weigh it. Feel free to share the results in the comments b...
June 9, 2021
Ten things you didn’t know about Moonlighting
1. Casting agent Reuben Cannon was fired by ABC for bringing them Bruce Willis. ABC executives said that no one would believe that Bruce Willis was sexy and he wouldn’t be believable standing next to Cybill Shepherd.
2. Their episode of Taming the Shrew was the most expensive hour of television ever made up to that point in 1986. It went from conception to airdate in 18 days which caused the budget to be at least two times the normal amount of a television s...
Moonlighting by Scott Ryan
Once upon a time ABC-TV’s Moonlighting was among the most buzzed-about shows in the country, thanks largely to the bravado of creator Glenn Gordon Caron, who never met a television convention he didn’t want to break, and the sizzling on-screen chemistry between glamorous erstwhile film star Cybill Shepherd and a New Jersey bartender nobody had ever heard of before named Bruce Willis, who bickered and flirted ceaselessly on screen and engaged in epic off-screen battles that all these years later ...
June 8, 2021
Smile More, Stress Less
Stress seems to be the one thing we all have in common, and it is not necessarily what we want to share. Writers have our own special brand of stress, which I’ve asked Geoffrey Saign, author of Smile More Stress Less, to address in this guest post.
Below that you’ll find information about his book. Geoffrey will be awarding a $30 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter, too, and the entry form is at the bottom of this post.
Stress Reduction for writers...
