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The pros and cons of author promotion #amwriting

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Two articles by the same author, both well worth a read…they polarised opinion when first published. The first was found via Wendy at  No Wasted Ink‘s weekly writing links: Please shut up: Why self-promotion as an author doesn’t work. The second gives the other side of the…

Grammar-ease: Lying vs Laying (Lie vs Lay)

Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Using lay versus lie has come up quite a bit, so here’s a re-do of my 2013 post on these tricky words. Lay is an active verb. A person picks up a book and lays it on a chair. A chicken lays an egg. (The person and chicken are active.)…

Mystery Mondays M.H. Callway on NaNoWriMo

Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Mystery Mondays welcomes M.H. Callway to talk about riding NaNoWriMo Tiger. If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is: read on! I know M.H. Callway as Madeleine. We met online through other authors. Madeline has a special place here as she provided an endorsement for my second novel, BLAZE. It’s difficult…

My Top 6 Creepy, Weird Or Scary Serial And Fiction Podcasts

Originally posted on Madeleine Swann:
Hello my little flower seed packets surreptitiously passed to Poirot as a clue to be deciphered later. Here in the future there are so many ways to experience fiction that words leak from our every orifices. One of the ways I’ve been mainlining fiction is via podcasts, and thanks to all…

Want The Perfect Hero? Don’t Make These 2 Mistakes

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
Everybody wants to create the perfect hero. I know I do. But creating the perfect hero means more than just perfection. It means imperfection. I like examples, I like learning from examples and I just happen to have read another book (Independent Study (The Testing Trilogy Book 2)), so I…

A Battle of Wits: Shakespearean Insults Infographics

Seeing how much you enjoyed my post, Of Canker-blossomed Fishwives and Faithless Prunes: Creative Insults, here are a couple of Infographics and photos with Shakespearean insults. This proves that … Source: A Battle of Wits: Shakespearean Insults Infographics

THE OWL LADY PRESENTS: AUTHOR CHERYL CARPINELLO

How I Got Started Writing My writing career started in 1980 with an entry level position with Cardiff Publishing, which published trade journals. I worked my way up to Managing Editor of Satellite Communications magazine. After five years of writing feature articles, editing, and doing some freelance work, I found myself without a job after […]

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