How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

So you’ve become an author, have you? Published by a small press, or else a large one with no publicist, so that the onus of selling your book falls upon you? Welcome to life as an author, 2012. Because I’m an extrovert, marketing via public appearances...
900 words that didn’t make the Novel

900 words that didn’t make the Novel

http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html “Are you really slack-jawed over a mailman?” a gentle voice behind her said. Startled, Amy whipped her body around, causing vertigo. Amy looked at the gentle speaker, clothed in a luxurious robe and...
Cat Fight Conversation is the new Rule

Cat Fight Conversation is the new Rule

I am writing today to recognize the sad demise of a mom spiel, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” It’s a mantra that many women raised in the ’50s – my peers – can recite. Maybe not taught to...
Message Via Voice

Message Via Voice

October is Better Speech-Language-Hearing Month, so here’s acknowledgement to my former career. YAY! I adored it as much as I adore my encore career of writing. Allow me to share information from past life career, when I fervently worked as the problem solver of...
The Characteristic of Curiosity

The Characteristic of Curiosity

Curiosity makes you smart, silly, and sensational. Curiosity helps you retain Wonder, which is grand! Curiosity drives knowledge growth, which can never hurt… Yet, “curiosity killed the cat” Yikes! Splat! Curiosity didn’t kill Curious George, a...