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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. ...
SCWC Workshop: Hooking Readers
In this MarketingtheMuse workshop I consistently offer via writers conferences, writers read the first two pages of their work in progress and we, the audience, let them know if we want more!
This workshop was held at SCWC's 2012 fall conference. ...
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 ...
Decode The Black Box Of Group Health Insurance
Decode The Black Box Of Group Health Insurance
I was honored to help craft Decode the Black Box of Group Health Insurance, an important book penned by 30-year senior executive health insurance industry insider, J Lara Juanillo. My many years in ...
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 ...
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
On an eve of returning from SCWC's 2017 fall conference, I’m inspired to pen a few words about narrator voice.
My workshops had a mix of writers, fiction and nonfiction writers. It is the nonfiction writers-you ...
Premature Hiring of Editors-DON’T!
Premature Hiring of Editors-DON'T!
I've blogged about this topic a few times but it's worth repeating. Some writers seek editorial input prematurely. Unless you hope to work with an editor over time, one willing to help you craft and revise, (an ...
Author PLATFORM BUILDING Continues
Author PLATFORM BUILDING Continues
I've said this often, as do other writers who spend time on various social media platforms, find a few platforms that work for you/fit your personality, which takes into account your relative patience-or lack thereof. Also, follow ...
MarlaMiller.com: Brand Building Takes Time
MarlaMiller.com: Brand Building Takes Time
After 6 years of toiling out here as an independent editor, my labors-why I branded MarketingtheMuse to me in 2003- are beginning to bear fruit. I am attracting writers I want to help; solid story-tellers with solid stories ...