Delightful and Dubious Words in Book Reviews

Delightful and Dubious Words in Book Reviews

Are you an author desperately seeking the validation that a book review brings? I will be soon… stand by. We all conceive of a book review as a grade or a referee report that gets published and therefore publicized. We don’t want to embarrass our M.F.A....
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...
Living Life as a Miracle: Career Choice

Living Life as a Miracle: Career Choice

While folks often say, “Life can spin on a  I’m writing about an important life episode initiated by a ‘spin on a heel’: mine. As we walked across the church parking lot, my husband and I spied our friend, and former pastor, walking with his...