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Our Voice When We No Longer Have One

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Our words do indeed live on long after we are gone. A touching post. Kevin

Originally posted on Me - Who am I?:

A fellow blogger recently passed away, a life suddenly taken without warning. Today, I visited his blog to read a few of his posts. It’s haunting to realize that you’re reading the words of someone who has passed on. It’s also a very emotional experience. All of a sudden their words have a greater meaning.

The posts that made us laugh, make us laugh even har...

Two Free Print Copies Of “Dalliance; A Collection of Poetry and Prose” Available

I am offering two free print copies of my book, “Dalliance; A Collection of Poetry and Prose”, to the first two people who email me at newauthoronline (at) gmail dot com.

The books will be sent, at my expense via surface mail.

For my guest post on Chris the Story Reading Ape’s blog, in which I discuss my poetry please visit, (http://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2015/02/01/read-about-author-kevin-morris-explaining-his-poetry/).

For a recent review of “Dalliance” please go to (https://nimbus432....

Writing Tools – A Guest Post By Victoria (Tori) Zigler

Thank you to Victoria (Tori) Zigler for the below guest post. For Tori’s previous (related) article please visit (http://newauthoronline.com/2015/05/13/from-idea-to-ebook-a-guest-post-by-victoria-tori-zigler/). For Tori’s blog please see, (http://ziglernews.blogspot.co.uk/).

I’ve always loved writing, and it wasn’t unusual to see me as a little girl; pencil in hand, as I scribbled something on a piece of paper. I even held “lessons” for my dolls, where I would show them how to write poems an...

Legal Deposit In Canadian Law

On 15 May I published a post entitled, “Legal Deposit, What Is It And Are You Covered, (http://newauthoronline.com/2015/05/15/legal-deposit-what-is-it-and-are-you-covered/). In that post I explained that all books published in the UK must be submitted for archiving to the British Library.

I have been contacted by a Canadian blogger, Lorraine, who has provided a link to a helpful post on her blog regarding the position in Canada, (http://lorrainereguly.com/legal-deposit/). Thank you Lorraine f...

Where Have All Of The Merry-Go-Rounds Gone?

Originally posted on Behind the White Coat:

It was the first one I have seen in over a decade. The merry-go-round was not in the best shape but my kids loved playing. I had to pry their fingers off of the struts to get them back home.

I had forgotten how much fun I had on those things as a kid. Now, they just stir up my vertigo.

Mommy is going to sit this one out.

Such is life….

You spin around full circle until it is time to get off. Things you enjoy, that you take for granted? They dissap...

Saturday Morning

Saturday morning.

The sun is hot.

Children kick a ball on the school playing fields, their animated voices filling the mid morning air.

A dog barks.

I enter the graveyard, it’s stones marking my way home.

Humans Have Shorter Attention Span Than Goldfish Thanks To Smartphones

Thanks to my friend, Brian for drawing the below article to my attention. According to a study by Microsoft, the attention span of the average human has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2015. According to scientists a goldfish can hold a thought in it’s brain for 9 seconds. The decline is, if one is to believe the research, due to the growth in the use of smartphones, which began in 2000.

Now what am I doing? What is the point of this post? Oh look a fly is buzzing around the r...

Butterflies

Beautiful butterflies flitting in and out of my life,

Here,for a moment, then gone in a trice.

An interlude of pleasure, thence you hurry away,

Lovely creature will you not stay?

Legal Deposit – What Is It And Are You Covered?

A copy of every book published in the United Kingdom must be deposited with the British Library. This includes everything from the latest blockbuster through to the self-published history of the Jo Bloggs family. The British Library’s website provides the following succinct explanation of Legal Deposit:
“Legal deposit has existed in English law since 1662. It helps to ensure that the nation’s published output (and thereby its intellectual record and future
published heritage) is collected sys...

So Just What Does Make A Good Book Good? by @RobertHughes05

Originally posted on :

I’m guessing everyone will have an answer to this question, but what do you think makes a good book good? After all, we have all started reading a book which we never finish, usually because we don’t particularly like the story, but what is it that makes us read a book right to its end?

As writers and authors we could all put a list together and, I’m pretty sure, we’d all have lists where many of the answers would match up. Without a doubt answers such as the cover, t...