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November 6, 2023
The Writer’s Room: Don’t Ignore This Place in Yourself!
From inside my study, one wall book-lined, the other holding a large mirror that makes the room appear bigger, I sit on the loveseat, listening to Strauss and the waterfall powered by a tiny electric pump. When I’m home, I turn it on, the sound of water like a heart beat in this house, a …
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October 30, 2023
Discover how Readers & Writers are Magicians!
Fiction writers have been called many things, but magician seems the best description. They dip into the black hat of their imagination and produce an endless variety of characters, situations, images, genres, events, and styles. The effect on readers is nothing less than magical, the reader also becoming a conjurer, assisting in making visible what …
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October 23, 2023
Multi-genre Guest UK author Tony Flood joins me today & shares his journey as an author
Tony Flood spent most of his working life as a journalist, initially on local and regional papers and then on nationals. He was also editor of ‘Football Monthly’, Controller of Information at Sky Television and enjoyed a spell with ‘The People’ before retiring in 2010. In his celebrity book My Life With The Stars, Tony …
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October 16, 2023
Thanks to WOMEN WRITERS, WOMEN’S BOOKS for featuring me and my new hybrid memoir DREAMING MYSELF INTO OLD AGE: ONE WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING, in their 10/9/23 post
Dreaming Myself into Old Age October 9, 2023 | By Women Writers Women Books | Reply Dreaming Myself into Old Age At the beginning of 2012, in my seventy-second year, I decided to return to analysis so I could explore my concerns about aging and dying. Fortunately, I found Dr. Y, a Jungian analyst who …
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October 9, 2023
From finding book titles to unearthing characters, author Robert Archambeau’s humor zings in this interview with him!
Meet Robert Archambeau, today’s guest author: Robert Archambeau possesses the world’s least interesting international identity. Of French-Canadian ancestry, he was born in Rhode Island, raised in Canada, and spent summers in Maine or at his father’s art studio on a lake in the Canadian wilderness. An art school brat, he always felt it was inevitable …
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October 2, 2023
What does it take to be a successful writer? Read on!
I’m thinking today of timing—how important it is to success. Timing and perseverance: the two go together. I’m also noticing the seasonal aspect of creativity, how cyclic it is. That too is hard to grasp. I want it all the time. I’m afraid if it isn’t there, it won’t return. But I need to remember …
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September 25, 2023
Where do the seeds for novels come from?
My novel Curva Peligrosa opens with a tornado that sweeps through the fictional town of Weed, Alberta, and drops a purple outhouse into its center. Drowsing and dreaming inside that structure is its owner, Curva Peligrosa—a curiosity and a marvel, a source of light and heat, a magnet. Adventurous, amorous, fecund, and over six feet tall, she …
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September 18, 2023
Meet guest author Michelle Cameron who unveils the mysteries of historical fiction and the writer’s life!
Michelle Cameron is the author of Jewish historical fiction, including Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity, the award-winning Beyond the Ghetto Gates and The Fruit of Her Hands: the story of Shira of Ashkenaz. She has also published a verse novel, In the Shadow of the Globe. Napoleon’s Mirage, the sequel to Beyond the Ghetto …
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September 11, 2023
Do book festivals sell books? Here’s my experience!
With two new books being published by Shanti Arts, and wondering how best to market them, I’ve been thinking about book festivals I’ve participated in. I realize that, while these events are great for focusing on the many book genres available, I also have concluded that I probably won’t attend one again. A few years …
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September 5, 2023
Welcome to Lily Iona MacKenzie’s Zoom Book Launches!
Join me and my editor/publisher, Christine Cote, to help celebrate the release of my hybrid memoir Dreaming Myself into Old Age: One Woman’s Search for Meaning (to be released on 9/19/23) and my newest poetry collection, California Dreaming (published on June 27). We’ll explore some of the main themes in both of my books as …
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