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Immersion Into Writers Conferences Is Humbling…
and that’s a good thing.
Recently and while immersed at a writers’ conference for 6 days, I taught what I know about the craft and business of writing to writers at every stage of literary development and as always, the time ...
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
JUN 09, 2024
We are in the era of internet writers. Those who have stories to tell, write them and then publish them. Some have training, many don’t. The ...
How One Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
How a Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
The sex scene this writer is referring to happens right before the climax, pardon the pun, of Deadly Little Secrets, a medical suspense/thriller set in 1985. The narrator, Loretta Casterini, RN, catches ...
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasies of ‘Bestselling’
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasy of ‘Bestselling’
L.A. author Joe Ide, frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at the Southern California Writers Conference, is delighted with the success he has enjoyed since selling his first novel, IQ at ...
The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness
The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness
Before I shifted careers, I was an RN, MSN and my specialty was psychiatric nursing. For two decades I practiced exclusively on psychiatric units, either managing them or supervising student nurses, undergraduates usually ...
Authors & Book Promotion Interviews, 21st Century Style
Authors & Book Promotion Interviews, 21st Century Style
WHO: Marla Miller, host of Authors & Book Promotion Interviews, 21st Century Style conducted on ZOOM
WHAT:
ZOOM Interviews with 21st century published authors from all publishing avenues, traditional, small press, indie/self and/or hybrid ...
Videoing on TikTok or Off, I’m In!
Videoing on TikTok or Off? I'm In!
Writers who have known me for years, know that I dig interviewing writers and have since I launched my first writerly focused program on Blog Talk Radio back in the early 2000's. When Google ...
Jada & Me: I’m Not Divorced Either
Jada & Me: I'm Not Divorced Either
Ten years before Jada Pinkett split with Will Smith and remained living with him, I did the same with my former. I had my reasons for residing under one roof, she had hers, but ...
HOOKING Is Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended ‘HOOKIE’
9/16/2022 SCWC, Query Letter Workshop w/Writersmama
HOOKING IS Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended HOOKIE!
(a.k.a agent or editor).
Crafting a hook-able query letter requires heavy lifting. Are you up for it? This video snippet on my youtube channel of ...
Not A Happy Ending: Common Story About Literary Agents
The Fate of 'Celebrity Chefs and Mentors: Women in Culinary Profession'
My celebrity chef project is officially shelved. I’ve spent two full years that included writing the twenty-nine page proposal and then pitching to EVERY literary agent who even remotely handles ...