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April 3, 2015
That’s What They Say?
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Originally posted on Legends of Windemere:
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Back on March 5th, I asked people to mention stereotypes they���ve heard about authors.�� Some of these I���d never heard of. Now I will respond:
���That authors make a lot of money.���- John W. Howell
Of course we do.�� Every author makes millions upon millions of dollars.�� Then we lose the game of monopoly, curse at our loved ones, and go into the basement to cry.
���Authors make virtually nothing at all.��� ��� Chris McMullen
Shows want you know!�� It���s not virtual nothing.�� It���s true, tangible nothing.�� This one ends with crying too.
���Coffee��� we live on coffee������ ��� Sue Vincent
Not all of us.�� Some of us live on soda, pizza, chocolate, vodka, rum, whiskey, beer . . . I���ll be right back.
���That we���re all alcoholics, of course!��� ��� Nicholas Rossis
Wow.�� One . . . two . . . many famous authors drink like���
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FREE E-book for you to enjoy with another special offer!
Originally posted on Mary Blowers, Author:
Just a quick note to all my loyal readers! My Christian e-book, Filled With the Holy Spirit, is��now free to download on Smashwords at http://ow.ly/L1D3I and at Amazon�� http://ow.ly/L5SA6. In addition, there is an offer in that book to get ANOTHER free book.�� Guess I���m feeling generous today.�� Anyway, if you���re interested, please take a copy with my compliments.
It would be GREAT if you left a review on Amazon or Smashwords as well.�� Thanks a million!
April 2, 2015
Easter Weekend Special:
Originally posted on Great Indie Authors:
For the Easter weekend only, I���m offering my new sequel:��Miedo 2: A Reckoning With Fear��for the very low price of 99p and 99c ���What?!
(Kev spins around on chair in his study filling the room with��maniacal laughter while rubbing his hands together. Aragorn and Rico have gotten wise to it and buggered off out. The neighbours decided to go on holiday to faraway downs. Pat turns the tele up and pretends he isn���t there. Will the madness ever end? Story to be continued���)
Starts on Good Friday and runs through Easter Monday
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Book To Raise Money For Guide Dogs
Originally posted on newauthoronline:
As those of you who follow this blog will know, I, together with fellow authors have produced an anthology to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, a registered charity which provides highly trained working guide dogs for visually impaired people. GDBA receives no funding from the government and relies entirely on the generosity of members of the public to continue it���s work of providing guide dogs thereby enabling visually impaired people to live and work independently.
The anthology is free to download but we ask that you please make a donation to Guide dogs when downloading.
Many thanks to everyone who has donated thus far. As of now the amount received stands at ��111.25. To donate and download the anthology please visit here, (http://newauthoronline.com/anthology-to-raise-money-for-guide-dogs/).
Many thanks,
Kevin
Proofreading When the Writing’s Done
Originally posted on One of the biggest things I learned on my Indie trip was that I couldn���t see my own mistakes. I must have proofread my first manuscript dozens and dozens of times, and I was very confident that it was pristine. Then I went on to editing and made some changes to paragraphs, swopped words around, and thought that that was that. I had put many hours into the polishing, and was feeling all warm and fuzzy that I���d done the work well when I hit that publish button. How very, very wrong I was. There were still typos and grammar gremlins in the book after all of that hard graft, primarily in the changes I���d made, and I came down to Earth with a bang in a blaze of shame, realising that that the editing was not at all complete when I thought it was.
I learned that if you���
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March 27, 2015
…Good Morning, Robin Williams!…
Thank you for this wonderful reminder Seumas – to be kind.
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
���today, a Crooked Cat Publishing pal of mine, Authoress, Nancy Jardine has her virtual launch for her book,��Monogamy Twist over on Facebook��� well worth a click to join her on:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1092788957413601/1111419762217187/
���however, this post has an ulterior message today, and I ask yeez in advance to bear with me on this��� I posted on her wall the You��Tube��clip at the top of the page, intended as a nice, funny��AWAKENER to kick off her day���s launch��� it���s a wee montage of scenes of the late, great, irreplaceable Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam,.. after posting it to her wall, and as I carried on listening to it, this ol��� Jurassic was struck with one of those unexpected ���wobbly��� moments��� watching the screen persona and realising this was the realRobin Williams that most of us only knew at a distance��� the mercurial, instantaneous, rapid-fire wise-cracks���
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Writing in the Present Tense: A Guest Post By Author Charles E. Yallowitz
Originally posted on Kylie Betzner:
Author Charles Yallowitz
Thank goodness it���s finally Friday! Am I right? And thank goodness for guest bloggers. After an entire week of laying sick in bed, I would have been hard-pressed to produce an interesting blog post with any content whatsoever. So, lucky for you, I���ve invited Charles E. Yallowitz, author of the fantasy adventure series Legends of Windemere��to guest post on my blog today.��This time he���ll be speaking��about ���Present Tense Writing.��� And just so you know, I���ve sealed all the exits and windows, so you can���t run away. Haha! Just kidding, you���ll enjoy this.
The reason I asked him to speak on this topic was because his series is��written in Third Person Present Tense. What does this mean? ��That he���s insane? How about I let Charles take it from here:
This style means that you are watching events unfold as they occur through your own eyes instead of���
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Should I Use A Publisher? 10 Questions To Ask | Just Publishing
Some excellent points on publishing from Jack.
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
Given what happened to Leila Samarrairecently, she has now learnt the hard way that everything is not as it seems in the often murky periphery of the literary world. Happily Leila has now found someone trustworthy to translate her work Till Words Do Us Part, from her native Serbian into English.
The accompanying post below could not be more timely, or indeed relevant, not only for her but for all of you. As usual, Derek states the blindingly obvious. Like myself, he has been writing for years. If someone like Derek or I don���t drum some much needed common sense into your heads, who will? Remember that both of us have learnt the hard way. So pay attention!
Face it people, we���re in a cut-throat business. The writing game isn���t for the faint hearted, easily offended, or the blissfully naive among us. If you want to survive within���
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The Creative Blogger Award – So many great blogs so little space!
I don’t normally reblog award posts, but this one is epic, both for the wonderful list of nominees who are all fascinating, but because Sally’s five things are just as epic – interviewing pucker astronauts and having a firm grip on Spain. Love it!
Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:
It was a lovely surprise to be nominated for the Creative Blogger Award by the Cornfed Contessa http://cornfedcontessa.com/ last week and as promised I am going to pass this on to a number of the amazing people that I follow here.
There are many fields of creativity and it is tough to pick just a few but I hope that even if you do not accept awards you will accept the excellent bottle of Smorgasbord 2015 Rioja (I wish) that I have attached at the bottom of the post. This in lieu of my usual bouquet of flowers being out of season at the moment!
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Here are the guidelines for this award.
Contact all of your nominees and notify them of their award. You can pick as many blogs as you like, but five is the minimum.
Give a shout-out to the blogger that nominated you and post a���
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Laughter the best medicine and Ginger!
Ha haaaa! Someone has stolen our tent! Just exactly my lovely Friday laugh – thank you Sal! :D
Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:
The Stars
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend.
���Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.���
���I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes��� replies Watson.
���And what do you deduce from that?���
Watson ponders for a minute. ���Well, Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe.���
But what does it tell you, Holmes?������
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