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WritersMama Read & Critique ZOOM Workshops-JOIN US!
Covid19 Be Damned! WritersMama Read & Critique ZOOM Workshops-JOIN US!
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April 4, 2020
Opening 5 Pages:
WritersMama Read & Critique Workshop via ZOOM
Okay, so this sucks and we all know it but does that mean we have to stop our creative ...
Have Black Voices Mattered in Publishing?
Have Black Voices Mattered in Publishing?
A while ago, I attended a one-day workshop at a Southern California library intended for writers of color. The room semi-filled with nonwhite attendees, a mix of African Americans and Latino folks; the panelists also ...
How To Write Like Joan Didion
How To Write Like Joan Didion
For every long sentence, you have to drop an anchor and slow down the pace.
In the same vein, build up a certain tone, then knock it down.
Everyone sees themselves as heroes in their own story.
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Update @Writersmama ZOOM Read & Critique Workshop
Update @Writersmama ZOOM R & C Workshop SEPT 2020
Those who follow me in social media know that the experimental workshop I launched on April 3rd soon after Covid19 forced us all to hunker down at home, is no longer experimental. ...
SCWC Workshop: Hooking Readers
In this MarketingtheMuse workshop I consistently offer via writers conferences, writers read the first two pages of their work in progress and we, the audience, let them know if we want more!
This workshop was held at SCWC's 2012 fall conference. ...
Melissa Etheridge Blurb on Forty Years Stoned: a journalist’s romance
Logging the Road To My Client's Publication
As promised, as updates come in, I will add on to Logging the road to my client's publication blog.
Tom's publisher, Heliotrope Books, NYC, makes adjustments as needed. Here's what the latest Advanced Reader Copy looks like with ...
DISCUSSING RACE RELATIONS: WHERE DO WE BEGIN?
I wrote this in 2008 and not much has changed. We’re still not talking to each other.
Discussing Race Relations: Where DO We Begin?
In this time when an African American male leads us into our future, how do we talk about ...
Decode The Black Box Of Group Health Insurance
Decode The Black Box Of Group Health Insurance
I was honored to help craft Decode the Black Box of Group Health Insurance, an important book penned by 30-year senior executive health insurance industry insider, J Lara Juanillo. My many years in ...
Highlights from SBWC2018 Platform Building Panel
Zig Ziglar, notable motivational speaker:
You can get what you want if you help others get what they want.
Highlights from SBWC2018 Platform Building Panel
The following are highlights from SBWC2018 Platform Building Panel. I only had time to transcribe the bare ...
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
On an eve of returning from SCWC's 2017 fall conference, I’m inspired to pen a few words about narrator voice.
My workshops had a mix of writers, fiction and nonfiction writers. It is the nonfiction writers-you ...