 Honestly, I have no clue if I've won any prizes but right now, I'm thrilled I won a silver medal!Â
FIREFLIES Takes the Silver Medal in the Paranormal Fiction Category!
Your Book: Social Networking Versus Conventional Advertising-What Say You?
With this PubSlush campaign ramping up for launch on September 1st, I'm faced with so many decisions as to how I want to use the funding (IF I get the funding I need) to market my new book. There are as many opinions about how to market your book as there are books to sell …
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Remembering When a Platform Was Something People Stood on to Give A Speech
I guess in some ways it still is. Two years ago before I'd even finished my first novel, I read a now long-lost article about building an author platform. Boy was I confused! I hadn't even finished my first novel at the time and I knew zip about publishing so in between writing, I read …
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Wikipedia says:Â The roots of the word have been defined[4] as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." According to the film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say." Today …
An E-Mail that Blew My Mind – Second Place in the PubSlush-BookLogix Pitch Contest!
Is this real life? I've been asking myself that for a week now. I entered this contest a few weeks ago. I pitched "The Blue Diamond - An Ivory Razor Adventure." I love this book so much. This means more to me than anyone could possibly know. Hello Peggy, Congratulations! You are the second-place winner …
Pardon Me While I Scream!!!
I got my book badge for FIREFLIES tonight! It's real! As cliche as it sounds and as much as I'd love to win in one of the two categories I am nominated in, I am just so honored and blessed to have made it into the finals. Thank you to anyone and everyone who has read …
The Personal Reward for Going into the Arts is Enormous
Stop the Presses! (I’ve always wanted to yell that lol) “Fireflies” is a Finalist!
News flash! I just received an e-mail from my publisher and friend, Kitty Bullard, that "Fireflies" is a FINALIST in TWO categories for the Readers'Â Favorite Book Awards! Fiction - Historical - Event/Era David Cornish MD 1918 Sheryn MacMunn Finding Out Pamela Atherstone ...Like Footprints in the Wind Linell Jeppsen Deadman's Lament J Bradley Van Tighem …
The Kind of Writer I Want to Be
I've believed since I started this journey two years ago that I knew exactly what kind of writer I wanted to be. I've had no formal training in this profession but I've done a ton of research, logged countless hours writing and I've dug in my heels. I'm not going anywhere. I write fast. I …
Slowing Down for the Greater Good
It dawned on me this evening after dinner that I've only had 20 hours of sleep since Sunday night. I can't blame it on insomnia or anxiety or even menopause because I do get sleepy and when I finally go to bed, I'm asleep within minutes...most nights. Then, I read this quote: "Face the facts …
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