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Literary Salon & Brett Battles: Hybrid Author Extraordinaire!
Episode #4 Literary Salon: Learning Prose from Pros Interviews Brett Battles
I so enjoyed time spent with Brett Battles, author of 23 novels plus many other published works. He defines 'hard working author' - on deadline all the time to craft ...
Perks of Being A Wallflower’s Stephen Chbosky Talks About Dialogue
'Writing dialogue is the hardest part, no question,' said Stephen Chbosky at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
The goal of good dialogue: Making 'artificial' dialogue sound 'authentic'.
2013 Writers Digest Conference Adds Pitch Witch Bootcamp!
Marla Miller and Jennifer Silva Redmond are pleased to offer a Pitch Witch Bootcamp at the upcoming 2013 Writers Digest Conference, 9/27/13--9/29/13. Enroll in Pitch Witch Bootcamp on Friday Sept 27th from 12:30 to 3:30 and before you meet agents, editors ...
Indie Authors TV: Jason Matthews & Marla Miller
Multi published Indie author & writing workshop teacher Matt Pallamary discusses applying shamanic techniques to storytelling. I was skeptical at first but what he says totally makes sense. Just another way of looking at story.
NEW! Quick Query Critique #134: On the Border of Time Fiction/Time Travel Romance
Dear ________:
I’m seeking representation for my time travel romance, On the Border of Time.
As archivist for the Hixson Mills Historical Society, Julia Pickett is entrusted with the care and preservation of the whispered words of the past found within ...
2013 Southern Cal Writers Conference Tasty Tidbits
Per their usual, the SCWC team pulled off another helpful conference. What I really appreciate about SCWC is its committment to meet writers where we are, on the road to publication in the 21st century. Sure, with all the new ...
How Important Is the Query Letter?
Bill Gibbons is the second subscriber/writer who made it past round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Writing contest. Like Dale Myers whose novel made it through round one in the 2012 contest, Bill credits the quick query critique he ...
QUICK QUERY CRITIQUE #132: The Light of Love/nonfiction/new age
QQC # 132:
THE LETTER
Dear -
Have you ever searched to redefine and reclaim your inner mastery of soul; or made a conscious decision to walk in the Divinity and Power of Love? “The Light of Love,” is a non-fiction New Age ...
Opening 2 Pages/Memoir: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop
In this Two Page Tell Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ the 2012 SCWC, the author reads the first two pages of her memoir...or is it? Would you turn to page 3?
Opening 2 Pages/Zombie Fiction: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop @ SCWC!
NEW! MarketingtheMuse Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ The Southern California Writers Conference, Sept. 2012
Two Page Tell is a new workshop I've added to the MarketingtheMuse tutorials. Since so many writers are bypassing the literary agent 'audition' and going directly to independent publishing ...