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October 17, 2014
Q&A Luccia Gray All Hallows at Eyre Hall @LucciaGray
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
All Hallows at Eyre Hall
Luccia Gray
“All Hallows is believable and well-written, true to the “voice” of Brontë, and well-researched. In fact, at times I thought Charlotte Brontë was writing this; that is how fabulous a writer Luccia Gray is. This is not to say that she is a copy-cat writer. No, the author understands and “gets” the flavor, feel, and construction of Brontë’s work – an honor to a classic author, and thus, that is how sequels should be written. Bravo!
Luccia Gray is a beautifully descriptive writer. I sensed a need to don my wool cape when she wrote: “ . . . the horizon is grey, the air smells of damp weeds, and the wind is cold and furious . . .” I felt the almost imperceptible warmth on my face when “ . . . the sun . . . was suddenly visible, pale and…
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Help Launch Read Tuesday with THUNDER
Originally posted on ReadTuesday:
Image from NASATHUNDERCLAP
Read Tuesday—a Black Friday type of event just for book lovers—now has a Thunderclap promotion underway.
The idea behind the Thunderclap is to create hundreds of simultaneous posts on the morning of Read Tuesday (December 9, 2014) to help spread awareness on the morning of the event.
You can help announce Read Tuesday with thunder. It’s easy:
Visit http://thndr.it/1CkO2Bg.
Click Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr and sign in.
Customize the message. (Optional.)
Agree to the terms. All that will happen is that the Thunderclap post about Read Tuesday will go out the morning of December 9.
When I first supported a Thunderclap for an author, I had been a little nervous when it asked me to confirm. It turns out I had worried over nothing. The only thing you’re agreeing to do is to have a single message go out on your Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr…
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October 16, 2014
Procrastination
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
I believe that procrastination is always caused by fear – not laziness. I’ve always really wondered with what ears we hear our inner voice. That’s assuming that all of us humans operate pretty much the same way and have these little guys yammering away at us all day long about one thing or another. I’ve also always wondered why my particular inner voice is sometimes as harsh as it is. I think that that little nag in your head that says things like – Why on earth would you think you could write a book? Why are you such a lazy sod? You should have written two thousand words by now – slacker! You’ll always be mediocre, because you never finish what you start – because it’s trying to protect you from failure, ridicule, and pain.
Most of our fears and general weirdnesses really do stem from our childhood. Thank…
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October 15, 2014
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Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog..... An Author Promotions Enterprise!:
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The Sunday Show – Matt Kruze – Author and host of The Secrets to Their Success
Another fantastic Sunday Show with Sally! :)
Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:
My guest today is a crime thriller author who has just embarked on The Storm Trilogy with the first book The Coming of the Storm published earlier this year. He is also a blogger and an interviewer himself and he recently interviewed one of my favourite people William Price King an American Jazz singer and composer which is how we came in contact. http://www.thesecretsoftheirsuccess.com/william-price-king-2/
We have quite a bit to cover and I thought we would begin with success.
We all have a different definition of success and that is driven by a number of factors. These vary from person to person but many gauge that success based on upbringing, parents’ expectations, education, and our own feelings of self-worth. Many of these are one size fits all until we reach an age when we perhaps are looking back and see successes that we might not have acknowledged at the time.
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Life’s Imbalance
Originally posted on gillswriting:
Sometimes life can blow your mind. At other times life can simply seem too damn tough. Many times life is a joy. At all times life is an unfair balance of these things.
Like the iconic justice scales which symbolise a fair and equal administration of the law, life is also a balance which is rarely equally split between the scales. In fact I would beg the question, “does the balance of life ever sit equally across the two scales?” I think not.
For me personally, the challenges of the life I have chosen to live in Tanzania seemed overwhelmingly difficult during my month-long trip back to Europe. The proverbial scales felt heavily weighted against me. The distance and differences between my two lives was so great that it made the challenges I face in Tanzania seem insurmountable. Several personal factors have weighed in heavily and added to that negative…
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Put yourself in that person’s shoes
Originally posted on Storing Hope:
I feel inspired to share with you all something about considering each other. We do a lot of things to make our friends happy, but sometimes we also do things that hurt their feelings. I observed one important way to be connected to each other, and have a better relationship.
Here is the way: Put yourself in that person’s shoes before saying something or doing something with that person. It will help you to understand everything you need to know about him or her and feel connected with that person.
When you put yourself in someone’s shoes, you start feeling how beautiful that person is. People would not hurt each other if they would have that consideration. For example, if someone makes a mistake and you correct him or her, then another day that person makes another mistake. Before you correct that person you need much consideration first, how is…
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The Blue Diamond The Razor’s Edge by P.S. Bartlett Book Review, Blog Tour & Giveaway
Originally posted on Author P.S. Bartlett:
Don’t forget to check this out!
Here is the review from beach Bound Books:
My Review
The Blue Diamond The Razor’s Edge is a compelling story of love, loss and second chances. Ivory is a strong willed and determined pirate who will stop at nothing to protect the ones she loves, but when romance is thrown in the mix anything can happen.
Orphaned at a young age, Ivory is left with only her cousins and their will to survive. They settle into a life on a farm away from the evils of the time, but life has other plans which becomes evident the night pirates arrive.
Transformed into a ruthless pirate, Ivory sails the seas. Her life now filled with adventure and freedom, that is until her ship, The Blue Diamond is attacked. Narrowly escaping with her life, Ivory ends up adrift in the sea until someone plucks her from…
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October 14, 2014
Welcome Florence to the Lit World Interviews Team! #Australia
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
I want to welcome
Florence
To the Lit World Interviews Team!
You’ve seen her picture over there in the author’s section, well now you know who she is if you didn’t check her out already.
This is what she says about herself:
“Psychotherapist, educator, lawyer, and a student of writing with a passion for books and music as well as an insatiable curiosity for learning and everything else.”
Yes, she’s here to a) try and make my writing look good when I remember to ask her to look at it before I hit ‘Publish’ and b) because she has a lot of talents that will benefit us greatly. She will be doing reviews of various genre including non-fiction subjects such as Psychology.
You have to admit, we’ve got a pretty good team here. The U.S. of A., South Africa, and now Australia. I’m covering the globe with some great people.
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