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Writing To Catch A Wave? Sometimes, Writers Can.
Writers hear all the time to never n-e-v-e-r write to catch an emerging wave. Why? By the time you do, it's gone. But what if you have material that fits well with a trend you see emerging?
Take multi-published novelist Hugh Howey, an ...
Indie AuthorJoanna Penn Pens Sellable Prose
Indie AuthorJoanna Penn Pens Sellable Prose
Indie Author Joanna Penn has combined a few previous careers into her writing life. Her long list of book credits reflects her love for both fiction and nonfiction, books she markets separately. Hard to do but if ...
Prescription PainKillers: Make Room for Marijuana
Prescribed Pain Killer Lists: Make Room for Marijuana
MedijuanaMama is on a rampage about prescription drugs that addict, big PHARMA that financially benefits from these addictions and the doctors who willy-nilly prescribe these highly addictive painkillers. She won’t include in this rant ...
Legalize Marijuana Now! Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN Special, 4/19/15
I'll let the good doctor's words speak for me.
CNN's top MD says: 'We should legalize medical marijuana. We should do it nationally. And, we should do it now.'
CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is back at it. The cable ...
LiterarySalon: Learning Prose from Pros, episode #3-Caitlin Rother
LiterarySalon: Learning Prose from Pros-episode #3
Bestselling true crime author and former investigative reporter Caitlin Rother will keynote at next week's Santa Barbara Writers Conference and no doubt talk about her latest, I'll Take Care of You.
Listen as she and Marla ...
Marla Miller.com/2015 SBWC Workshop Schedule
Marla Miller.com/2015 SBWC Workshop Schedule
1–3:30 pm, Sunday thru Friday, 6/7 – 6/12, 2015
My afternoon workshops remain the same -a combination of read/critique, openings only, fiction & nonfiction. We will also listen with an ear for organic social media strategies that ...
Editors Are People 1st-Good To Remember, Writers
Like many writers, I’m also an editor. For the years that I ran a magazine, I edited so much I never wanted to edit again. It’s tiring work but a writer does what a writer must do. Most of us ...
Marijuana Infused Stories Make N.Y.Times News: Catherine Hiller Memoir
Marijuana Infused Stories Make N.Y.Times News: Catherine Hiller Memoir
An excerpt from Catherine Hiller's soon to be published Just Say Yes, a Marijuana Memoir made news in New York Times 3/22/15 Sunday edition, perhaps the first marijuana infused memoir to earn this ...
SBWC Literary Agents & Editors Panel: Conflict, Conflict, Conflict!
SBWC Literary Agents & Editors Panel: Conflict, Conflict, Conflict!
NYC literary agent Paul Fedorko told me this was the best agents panel he's ever been on. Why? 'No bullshit,' he replied.
As moderator of this 2014 SBWC panel, my intention was to talk ...
Literary Salon: Learning Prose from Pro, Jane Smiley–Pulitzer Prize Author
Literary Salon:Learning Prose from Pros-episode two
Jane Smiley will keynote at the upcoming Santa Barbara Writers Conference 6/7/14--6/12/14 It will be Ms. Smiley's second keynote address. Ms. Smiley keynoted at SBWC after the release of A Thousand Acres, Ms. Smiley's ...