A New Addition To The Bookshelf Muse

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This post is a bit of a mish-mash, but there's some exciting things going on that might just be BIGGER THAN BACON.



WEBINARS!



First, you may have noticed a NEW Page tab above labelled Workshops and Webinars.  Becca and I are happy to announce that we're taking our show on the Virtual Road, and doing a bit of teaching!



Our first webinar, on March 6th, is Using Nonverbal Communication To Wow Readers and is being hosted by WANA International. If you struggle with emotion and how to show it, this is the class for you. Wana also has many other courses for creatives, too! We hope to see some of you there. :)





GRATITUDE!



Becca and I have chosen our Charity of the Year and want to introduce it to all of you! Last year, we picked Heifer International, and thanks to your support, we were able to donate a portion of our royalties to this worthy cause. This year we're choosing UEND: Poverty, a organization that has projects all over the globe to help wipe out poverty. I found out about this charity a few years ago when my husband gave me a gift certificate for it for my birthday, and I was able to go into the site and choose which project to put the money toward. Very cool stuff!





CONFERENCE!



Circling back to WANA International, we're also very excited to share their first online conference coming on Feb 22 & 23. The line up of speakers is amazing.There will be Agent Pitching and great advice from some of the best in the biz. And of course no event would be complete without some social fun, so there's a mixer and pajama party, too! You can download the full conference schedule right here.



GUEST POST!



Also, Becca is over at one of the most amazing blogs on the internet: Query Tracker,
so please feel free to stop in and say hello! This blog and site was so
helpful when I was looking for my agent--I hope any of you on the hunt
are checking into all the information and tools they have for writers.



COMMUNITY!



Finally, when we were celebrating our 3 BIG January milestones with a Kindle Giveaway, I asked to hear about the blogs that have helped you recently. You guys had so many sites to share, rather than let those blogs get lost in the comments, I rounded up all the ones you left links for and posted them below. Blogging and writing is also about building community, so I urge you to choose a blog on the list that you don't yet know and take a minute to swing by and say hello!








Blogs valued By Musers 2013


Krista Von Dolzer

Enriching Lives. Inspiring Hope

Rose Anne McCauley

Female First

Nail Your Novel

Janice Gable Bashman

Literary Rambles

Falling Leaflets



Cock-eyed Caravan

Lisa L. Regan

Nancy S. Thompson

Jami Gold

K.M. Weiland

Coffeehouse For Writers

Slushpile Hell

Conversations With Writers

GenXposé

Theresa's Tales of Teaching Tribulations and Typing Teen Texts

Catherine Scully



Rose Gaus: The Draw Page

Sparknotes

The Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment




dVerse Poet's Pub 



Studio Mothers

James Scott Bell

Writer Unboxed 

Magical Words



Vaughn Roycroft

Jody Helund 

Sarah Nego

Kristal Shaff

Janice Hardy

Juliana Brandt

The Write Practice

Dean Wesley Smith

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Ellie Garratt

Gwen Gardner

Back Porch Reflections

Stacy Nash

Elana Johnson

Self Publishing Podcast

The Creative Pen

A Thought Grows

Live Write Thrive



Julie Coulter Bellon

Terrible Minds

Marcy Kennedy

The Pen Punks

Agent Query Connect



The Artsy Side Of Life



Girls Pwn

Sara Brookes 



Margie Lawson 

R.S. Guthrie

Kevin Rau