Archives for Marla’s Musings - Page 3
Conscious Uncoupling Crazy? Not To Me
Conscious Uncoupling Crazy? Not To Me Now that Gwenyth and her Cold Play hubby have confirmed what's been buzzing around for some time, the response to their statement of separation did not cause the reaction in me that it caused ...
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
It’s no secret; I’m no fan of some of traditional publishing’s practices that include doting (mostly) on authors making lots of money while offering little to the rest. Yes, I ...
Prescription PainKillers: Make Room for Marijuana
Prescribed Pain Killer Lists: Make Room for Marijuana
MedijuanaMama is on a rampage about prescription drugs that addict, big PHARMA that financially benefits from these addictions and the doctors who willy-nilly prescribe these highly addictive painkillers. She won’t include in this rant ...
Legalize Marijuana Now! Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN Special, 4/19/15
I'll let the good doctor's words speak for me.
CNN's top MD says: 'We should legalize medical marijuana. We should do it nationally. And, we should do it now.'
CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is back at it. The cable ...
Marla Miller.com/2015 SBWC Workshop Schedule
Marla Miller.com/2015 SBWC Workshop Schedule
1–3:30 pm, Sunday thru Friday, 6/7 – 6/12, 2015
My afternoon workshops remain the same -a combination of read/critique, openings only, fiction & nonfiction. We will also listen with an ear for organic social media strategies that ...
Editors Are People 1st-Good To Remember, Writers
Like many writers, I’m also an editor. For the years that I ran a magazine, I edited so much I never wanted to edit again. It’s tiring work but a writer does what a writer must do. Most of us ...
Marijuana Infused Stories Make N.Y.Times News: Catherine Hiller Memoir
Marijuana Infused Stories Make N.Y.Times News: Catherine Hiller Memoir
An excerpt from Catherine Hiller's soon to be published Just Say Yes, a Marijuana Memoir made news in New York Times 3/22/15 Sunday edition, perhaps the first marijuana infused memoir to earn this ...
Sound Off! Writer Wonders ‘Do Agents Respect Writers?’
Throwing Darts in the Dark
On the road to traditional publishing, it is virtually compulsory that writers query agents in an attempt to obtain representation. At this point, the writer begins a metaphoric game of darts – played in the dark. ...
PREMATURE PUBLICATION
PREMATURE PUBLICATION
The good news is, writers are no longer at traditional publishing's beck and call. We have options. Back in the day, we had none. Our only hope? Getting a nod from one of the publishing houses.
The first winds of ...
Writers, Why Writers Conferences?
I love cyberspace and the ability to do business easily. But for writers, there's no place like home (s) we visit annually, come hell or high water: writers conferences. Why go? Conferences offer avenues into the community of writers. The ...