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What’s Your Alaska?
Originally posted on Just Olga:
Hi all: Denali. Mt. McKinley from Wikipedia As you know my posts are a bit…whatever. I know the title of today’s it’s a bit weird, but let me explain. This year (early May, to be precise) it’s a big birthday for me. OK, OK, I’m going to be 50. No…
Missed Opportunities
Originally posted on All I Have to Say:
Last week, I discovered a broken link on my blog. This might not sound like a big deal to you, and in reality, it probably isn’t – unless my broken link directed a potential reader away from my blog. A broken link can cost you a book sale. It…
The Best Editing Tools for Creative Writers
Interesting Literature By Robert Morris Have you ever been so consumed by the creative writing process that you were left with no energy for the editing part? That happens to most writers. We don’t have a problem to spend days on a short story or blog post, but even a single hour of editing makes […]
Searching for Exoplanet Rings ********** Posted From Centauri Dreams
Posted: 09 Mar 2015 05:45 AM PDT Not long ago we looked at the discovery of what appears to be a disk orbiting the huge gas giant J1407b (see Enormous Ring System Hints of Exomoons). The example of Saturn is one thing that makes us wonder whether rings might exist around exoplanets, but of course […]
…Authors and Readers… let there be no unseemly haste… slow down…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I s’pose a panel (or psyanel?) of psychiatrists would posit (or psyosit?) that the human need to continue to be satisfied is more than balanced by the need to get stuff ‘finished’… fr’example, as a Reader, the great pleasure of wandering through an engrossing novel can leave yeez not wanting…
Building Your Author Platform: How to Choose Your Pen Name
Originally posted on Kate M. Colby:
Once you have decided to start building your author platform, the first thing you need to do is select the pen name under which you plan to publish. This is an extremely important decision, and for some authors, it will be more difficult than others. Your pen name is…
Locations in Undiscovered
Originally posted on Love Under the Sun:
I had an interesting question recently. One of my author friends wanted to know if I had actually been to the places my characters go in Undiscovered. The answer was a resounding yes—with a disclaimer. I’ve never been to the Daytona Police Department. In fact, I had to…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 