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GOP founded The Lincoln Project Pays Respects & Delivers Hope
GOP founded The Lincoln Project Pays Respects & Delivers Hope
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
T. Jefferson Parker Talks Writing at S.C.W.C.
T. Jefferson Parker Talks Writing at S.C.W.C. Revising in 2017 and one week after the ALWAYS fabulous Southern California Writers Conference was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel, our San Diego muse center that's always been good to the conference. T. Jefferson ...
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein's Take on Novel Writing and Character Development
When you've been studying craft as long as moi , you collect lots of notes. Foraging through boxes recently I found a treasure trove of good ...
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 ...
A Writer’s Fan Letter Unanswered. Writers, Do You Know Why?
Writer Fan Letter Unanswered. Writers, Do You Know Why?
In my Hooking Readers workshops, I always pass along what was passed along to me by my mentors, most all coming from my longtime affiliation with the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. It ...
OPENINGS: Novel Writing Unchanged, The Writer, 1994
OPENINGS: Novel Writing Unchanged, The Writer, 1994. My workshops have always focused on hooking readers with craft elements taught to me by literary masters. Barnaby Conrad, founder of the renowned Santa Barbara Writers Conference, mentored me for many years. I ...