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MARSocial Special Interview: Question & Answers #4
Originally posted on International Book Promotion:
Hello everyone! So, finally we received all answers from our participants from MARSocial author network. Are you excited to read the answers yet? Question #4 is “When did you decide to become a writer?” from Viv Drewa. Let’s check out the answers from all 11 author participants ! 1) Coleman Weeks…
MARSocial Special Interview: Question & Answers #3
Originally posted on International Book Promotion:
Hello everyone! So, finally we received all answers from our participants from MARSocial author network. Are you excited to read the answers yet? Question #3 is “What’s your favorite color and favorite dessert?” from Annie Edmonds. Let’s check out the answers from all 11 author participants ! 1) Coleman Weeks…
Poetic Thought for the Day (8/23/2014): Listening, Accents, Rhythm
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Athletes and musicians practice, and consider small matters of mechanics, precisely so that they do not need to think about them in performance. Like an actor who memorizes lines perfectly, the artist can concentrate on the performance, the feeling, confident that the means, acquired…
Like a Jazzman Does
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
You can’t write poetryyou put it down in words like a jazzman does you sink your earsinto sound float along…………….till it’s all around wander through its winds ………………..its leavestill the night mindtakes you ……………….on down………………………….down…………………..down then you slide back roundtouch another scale……………………………lift that…
Voices in the Wind
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Do you hear them? In the wind, the voices. The rattling in the eaves, the swirl of leaves,the tumble-weeds rolling across the desert floor,the dust slicing into your eyes, the sunlike a white god sitting on the mountain top:a toad on the horizon; we look…
The Devil’s Walkingstick
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Scientists who know such things call it Aralia spinosa,but down home we knew it as the Devil’s Walkingstick.Prickly to the touch like an old woman’s barbs, it would bite you if you tried to pluck that purple fruit; in August (when goats flow…
A Witches’ Brew
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
She used to gather the bark and leaves in fall, after summer’s roaming and philandering; she’d boil it all down to nothing but an extract, an ugly mess of oil, thick and gluey, pale yellow; but I can attest to those times when…
Fighting the Blurb
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
BOOK BLURB In modern times, the book’s blurb is dynamic—it isn’t etched in stone. You can change it as often as you like. If you’re getting regular sales, don’t touch your blurb with a 12-ft. pole! Otherwise, keep fighting your blurb until you finally get it right. It would be ideal…
…accepting gifts from the reviewing Gods… an Author’s perfect present…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…no self-respecting quill-scraper is embarrassed to admit the frisson of ecstasy yeez experience when an out-of-the-blue glowing review for yer WURK hits the Amazon and Goodreads pages… here’s what arrived on those review pages yesterday… LUV IT!… ..there are certain reviewers whose opinions I value so highly they are off…
Con-Eire FREE!
K. A. Laity In honour of Shamrokon and LonCon3, my short play Con-Eire from today through Monday will be completelyFREE! It’s appropriate for this season as it’s a love letter to the hard-working folks behind the scenes putting the madness all together: It’s three days before the start of Con-Eire, the best Irish-themed science fiction […]
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 