I’m honored to have another guest writer joining the blog. Wendy Burt-Thomas takes time out of her busy schedule to answer questions about queries and book authoring. She is a full-time freelance writer, editor and copywriter with more than 1,000 published pieces. Her third book, The Writers Digest Guide To Query Letters hit stores in … Read more
I loved writing poems when I was growing up. Now, I only write them for special occasions like my husband’s milestone birthdays. Sage is the author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Her equally talented friend and writer, Christina Katz, … Read more
The success of Harry Potter and Twilight has brought about a new argument (might require free registration) that college students pick books to read like 13-year-olds, aren’t motivated to read books that help them make a difference in the world and don’t debate issues. First, we must give these series credit for lighting a fire … Read more
Beware The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur has a potty mouth, but that’s what makes it endearing and an engaging read. Author and TP entrepreneur (TPE) Mike Michalowicz uses it as his brand. Anyone who doesn’t like potty mouth is probably not his ideal audience anyway. While potty humor — especially in the movies — tends to … Read more
You’ve arrived at stop #19 of the The Writer Mama Two-Year Anniversary Blog Tour Giveaway! I’m honored to be a train stop on this virtual tour. A little background, Christina Katz — aka The Writer Mama — decided to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the book by eTraveling to a different blog every single day … Read more
“Tuned in” explains the difference between Apple Newton’s failure and iPod’s success. Apple wasn’t tuned in when it created Newton, but when it promoted “1000 songs in your pocket,” Apple solved several problems: giving people a way to carry their songs in something small, making it easy to get songs from computer to iPod and … Read more
In Get in the Mood for Love, I mentioned that a book could explain how I managed to get my book love groove back. That book is One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer. This was the fourth book I read since reuniting with my books (I read five … Read more
Photo credit Katie Tegtmeyer Married couples often hit a dry spell especially after children come along. They find less time to spend together alone and in the bedroom. I ran into problems of my own in the bedroom. Between my hand injury and doing many game reviews, I had a dry reading spell. How I … Read more
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill “Failure is an event, never a person.” –William D. Brown It’s been too easy for me to fall into a pity party and woe is me situation. OK, maybe I did that for three minutes. I consider myself lucky to have … Read more
Having just read two great articles about book reviewing, it felt appropriate to make this the next, “Hey!” blog entry. Joanna Young and Joyful Jubilant Learning ask what do you look for in a book review and Lillie Ammann reviews The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing. Bad Quotes These quotes tell the story of what … Read more