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Road To ‘Forty Years Stoned: a journalist’s romance’ Publication
Road To 'Forty Years Stoned: a journalist's romance' Publication
Forty Years Stoned: a journalist's romance
This blog will grow as Tom Huth's platform does. With time and entries, I hope it will offer a roadmap for writers unable to envision their own ...
Mark Childress, My Latest Literary Crush
MarkChildress, My Latest Literary Crush
I can't help it, I get crushes. Gender doesn't matter. I swooned over Dorothy Allison just as I did Stephen Chbosky and Jane Smiley and David Brin and T. Jefferson Parker and Catherine Ryan Hyde and ...
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
It’s no secret; I’m no fan of some of traditional publishing’s practices that include doting (mostly) on authors making lots of money while offering little to the rest. Yes, I ...
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 ...
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 ...
So. California Writers Conference Exec Dir. Speaks Feb2015
Southern California Writers Conference Exec Dir. Michael Steven Gregory doing what he does well-discussing the writing process and expectations of writers who attend this conference held in the fall and winter months. Click here for a snippet of his opening ...
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 ...
2014 Santa Barbara Writers Conference & Marla Miller’s Workshops
Since 1972, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, SBWC , has hosted iconic authors and author hopefuls. When I attended my first in 1989, I learned that legendary writers like Ray Bradbury & Charles M. Schulz never missed a session. Other iconic ...
SCWC/2014: Learn More, Suck Less
SCWC/2014: Learn More, Suck Less
In the last 26 years +, the Southern California Writers Conference has hosted its 'flagship' conference in San Diego over Presidents Day Week-end. This year is no exception. Join us for 3-days of intensive learning aimed ...
Gayle Carline: I’ve Written “The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now?
Great overview! Thanks Gayle for sharing with MarketingtheMuse
I’ve Written “The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now?
Gayle Carline, Mystery Author and Humor Columnist
Alternate Publishing/SCWC Workshop 9/22/2013
“The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now?
The short answer is No.
“A book is published too soon for the publisher and ...