Archives for Marla’s Musings
SweetSpot: Now and Then Promotion Continues
SweetSpot: Now and Then Promotion Continues
Panic and passion mix with pain and paint the portrait of SweetSpot: Now and Then, my novel debuting soon. #womenfiction #commercialfiction
For a long time, I've snapped short video snippets from my favorite series, films, documentaries, ...
My Country Trumps Your Friendship
My Country Trumps Your Friendship
My two cents about this meme message circulating out here in social media land. I’ve seen it before but yesterday, I scrolled by it and noticed a former friend of mine added in the comments that ...
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 ...
The Messiness of Midlife
The Messiness of Midlife
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 the two of ...
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 Promo, 21st Century Style
Authors & Book Promo, 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 publishers. ...
Nora Ephron’s ‘Everything Is Copy’ Inspired My Novel
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Nora Ephron's 'Everything Is Copy' Inspired My Novel
On the day of Taylor Swift's ‘Tortured Poets Department’ debut, I found this reel. Until I did, I did not know that like me, Taylor Swift views Nora Ephron as a mentor. Nora ...
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 ...
Romanticism and the Writing Life
December 29, 2022
I know this mantra
We hear it from our elders who quote versions of it in workshops they teach and craft books they write. We share it with writers attending our own workshops. “Bleed on the page.” But what ...