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R.N.s in Deadly Little Secrets Drive This Tale Rooted in Truths
RNs in Deadly Little Secrets Drive This Tale Rooted in Truths
Before I became a working freelance writer, I was an RN, MSN, with graduate and undergraduate degrees from University of Illinois, College of Nursing where I taught psych nursing to ...
21st Century Authors: Talking to Marla Miller
21st Century Authors: Talking to Marla Miller
Is writing your second career? If so, what has your first career contributed to your storytelling? How did you learn the craft of writing? How did you learn the business of publishing? Tell us ...
Deadly Little Secrets: A Novel Rooted in History
Deadly Little Secrets: A Novel Rooted in History
Spring 1985, Corona Cove, Ca: When a medical crisis descends on the community hospital, high school nurse Loretta Castrini enlists her band of nurses hot-wired to the hospital’s information highway to deliver the ...
Teen Suicidal Ideation: Sensitive Subject Explored in Fiction
Teen Suicidal Ideation: Sensitive Subject Explored in Fiction
As I ready the publication of Deadly Little Secrets paperback edition, I'm doing what I did not do well in 2013 when we published this novel in ebook format only; finding my readers. ...
Midlife Switch to the Writing Life? This Show’s For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnxPDZE-37k&t=34s
Midlife Switch to the Writing Life? This Show's For You
Exploring Midlife Career Transitions Through Storytelling
Are you someone who started out in one profession but found yourself drawn to writing later in life? If so, this show is dedicated to sharing ...
SweetSpot: Now and Then: Fiction About the Facts of Midlife
SweetSpot: Now and Then: Fiction About the Facts of Midlife
In my efforts to get my novel about one midlife women's life switch into raders hands, I've been on the prowl for marketing/promotion opportunities.
Midlife Women Entrepreneurs Podcast with host Lynette Turner, ...
Creatives, Let Fear Motivate You To ACT UP
AIDS: Witnessing an Epidemic and Cultural Stigma
I wrote a novel years ago, the paperback has just debuted, about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the villain so many Americans feared. I've borne witness to cultural hate and stigma for ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bullies & Books
This short video of Rep. AOC talking to middle grade school kids inspired this story about bullying. Bullying
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bullies & Books
I remember every single kid who bullied me in grade school.
There were a few. I was rather sickly in ...
Fiction’s Roots Found in Facts, SweetSpot: Now and Then
Fiction Roots Found in Fact, SweetSpot: Now and Then
Not every novel is rooted in an author's reality.
But for this author, my storytelling has to speak to some value/issue/norm I want to explore in long storytelling form. In the case of ...
SweetSpot: Now and Then Channeling Ray Bradbury
SweetSpot: Now and Then Channeling Ray Bradbury
If you want to write, you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books & glorious books. You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders ...