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June 5, 2016
A Movie About Editing Books? Seriously?
I’m looking forward to this movie — Duos of ‘Genius’ — about legendary editor Maxwell Perkins and authors Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.
Biographer A. Scott Berg, left, and screenwriter-producer
John Logan (Mel Melcon, L.A. Times)
Quote: “[Wolfe] was ... famously undisciplined, turning in manuscripts in overflowing crates; his books came into being only with his editor’s perceptive eye, and steady, patient hand.”
By author/biographer A. Scott Berg and screenwriter J...
May 27, 2016
Decoration Day Honored U.S. Civil War Veterans; Later Became Memorial Day
I posted this last year, but think it deserves posting again.
On May 5, 1868, Major General John A. Logan, the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, declared Decoration Day as a time for the nation to honor the U.S. Civil War dead. Logan declared that the day should be observed on May 30 and that the soldiers’ graves be decorated with flowers.
Oney F. Sweet, Civil War Veteran
The veterans’ organization held the first observance that year at Arlington Natio...
May 24, 2016
Updated: Resources for Authors, Editors & Indie Publishers
I have updated my web page Resources for Authors, Editors & Indie Publishers.
Larry Edwards explaining “What Editors Do” on National Authors’ Day.
It includes my latest presentation “Using Social Media for Promoting Your Book: The Why, Where, When and How” — this is an introductory overview, with links to a broader array of more specific and detailed information.
I have also added more links related to Book Marketing and Forums, Discussion Groups.
I hope you find information useful. If there...
May 18, 2016
Using Social Media for Promoting Your Book
I will be speaking at the San Diego Writers & Editors Guild meeting on Monday, May 23, 2016.
Topic: Using Social Media for Promoting Your Book: The Why, Where, When and How
Profile:
Larry Edwards is an award-winning author, editor, and publisher, and an accomplished 
marketer of several books, including Dare I Call It Murder: A Memoir of Violent Loss. Published in 2013, the memoir has been an Amazon best-seller in two categories — memoir and true-crime. Through his marketing efforts, his book...
May 6, 2016
Mother’s Day and the U.S. Civil War
With Mother’s Day just a few days away, I began to wonder about the history of the day purported to honor mothers. Did it exist during the U.S. Civil War? If it did, Oney F. Sweet never mentioned it.
It turns out that the underpinnings of Mother’s Day predate the Civil War. This according to Katharine Lane Antolini, assistant professor of history and gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She is the author of Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Strug...
April 29, 2016
Violent Loss Network – May 1, 2016
Violent Loss Newsletter, May 1, 2016 News you can use … (scroll down to see all)Useful information in the latest Violent Loss Newsletter from Connie Saindon and the Violent Loss Network . . .
Contents will vary somewhat month to month. As we close out this month, our contents include:
Resource of the Month—VACC: Victim Assistance Coordinating Council. Topic of the Month: The Early Response Question of the Month: How did you find out about your loved one’s d...April 18, 2016
Question of the Week: April 18-24, 2016
Civil War: an “Irrepressible Conflict” or product of “Blundering Generation”?
For this week’s Question of the Week, Phill Greenwalt asks: Do you think the Civil War was an “Irrepressible Conflict” or theproduct of “a Blundering Generation”?
April 13, 2016
Pay Them Gratitude and Respect: Remembering the Civil War’s Prisoners of War
On Friday, April 8, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation in which he designated April 9 as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. “We salute the selfless service members throughout our history who gave their own liberty to ensure ours,” the president declared, “and we renew our commitment to remaining a Nation worthy of their extraordinary sacrifices.”
A very small part of the National Cemetery located on site at Andersonville...
April 12, 2016
Slinging Insults in the Confederate State House
You think politics is uncivil today? Take a look back:
Judah Benjamin (photo courtesy wikipedia)
Things got testy in the U. S. Congress in the years before the war. Most ofus know about Preston Brooks caning Charles Sumnerin the Senate chamber. Maybe less known is when South CarolinaRepresentative Lawrence Keitt called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a “BlackRepublican puppy.” Grow knocked Keitt down, and a free-for-all erupted onthe House floor.
Which brings up the sub...
April 6, 2016
6 Hard Truths Every Writer Should Accept
I couldn’t have said this much better myself, so I am passing this along . . .
There are a few hard truths I feel every writer should accept. The sooner you accept them, the sooner you’ll stop obsessing about them and the sooner you can do the work to get yourself published.
Read the entire article here . . .
6 Hard Truths Every Writer Should Accept
