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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 ...
How One Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
How a Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
The sex scene this writer is referring to happens right before the climax, pardon the pun, of Deadly Little Secrets, a medical suspense/thriller set in 1985. The narrator, Loretta Casterini, RN, catches ...
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasies of ‘Bestselling’
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasy of ‘Bestselling’
L.A. author Joe Ide, frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at the Southern California Writers Conference, is delighted with the success he has enjoyed since selling his first novel, IQ at ...
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. ...
Videoing on TikTok or Off, I’m In!
Videoing on TikTok or Off? I'm In!
Writers who have known me for years, know that I dig interviewing writers and have since I launched my first writerly focused program on Blog Talk Radio back in the early 2000's. When Google ...
HOOKING Is Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended ‘HOOKIE’
9/16/2022 SCWC, Query Letter Workshop w/Writersmama
HOOKING IS Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended HOOKIE!
(a.k.a agent or editor).
Crafting a hook-able query letter requires heavy lifting. Are you up for it? This video snippet on my youtube channel of ...
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 ...
AUTHORS & Book Promotion 21st Century Style Interview/ SHELDON EPPS/Director -MEMOIR
AUTHORS & Book Promotion 21st Century Style Interview/ SHELDON EPPS/Director -MEMOIR
Noted Artistic Director Sheldon L. Epps decided to write his memoir during the pandemic; his 30+ career in the american theater chronicled in
MY OWN Directions: A Black Man's Journey ...