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‘SweetSpot: Now and Then’ Promotion Aided by Menopause Mentors
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'SweetSpot: Now and Then' Promotion Aided by Menopause Mentors
The doors to opportunity begin to close for women in midlife. We've always known that and likely many women have accepted this as a fait accompli. When I wrote the first ...
SweetSpot Now and Then Promotion Includes Fannie Flagg’s ‘Success’ Story
SweetSpot: Now and Then, Promotion Includes Fannie Flagg's Success
Like my protagonist in SweetSpot: Now and Then, noted author Fannie Flagg didn't start out as a writer. Some may remember her as an actress and game show sidekick. But like my ...
@Writersmama Zoom Workshops Expand & SCWC 2021 Update
Fall, 2021
Dear Subscribers,
I launched WritersMama ZOOM Read & Critique Workshop on April 3rd, 2020. Sixteen months later, this group still meets twice/week. Three of our writers are reading novel #2 while pitching their first novels, read/critiqued by us, to agents ...
Writersmama and My Platform Building Ways
Writersmama and MY Platform Building Ways
I wrote this piece a few years ago and after listening to bestselling author Joe Ide's keynote at Southern California Writers Conference. Ide's was an inspiring keynote filled with lots of craft writers must embrace ...
Book Promotion: Takeaway Tips from SBWC Authors’ Panel
Viewer alert: The videos of Diana Raab and Max Talley may come on automatically so please go to each video and turn off and when you are ready to listen, turn each one on. Sorry for the inconvenience. MM
Book Promotion: ...
Immersion Into Writers Conferences Is Humbling…
and that’s a good thing.
Recently and while immersed at a writers’ conference for 6 days, I taught what I know about the craft and business of writing to writers at every stage of literary development and as always, the time ...
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
JUN 09, 2024
We are in the era of internet writers. Those who have stories to tell, write them and then publish them. Some have training, many don’t. The ...
HOOKED: Example of a BOOK Proposal That Did! 5 day KDP FREE4Writers ebook
HOOKED: Example of a BOOK Proposal That Did!
For nonfiction writers crafting book proposals Kindle Edition
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In 2005, I crafted a book proposal that the editor at St Martin's liked enough to want to sell ...
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 ...