Archive | April 2018
You are browsing the site archives by date.
Authors Beware: Amazon Gets Medieval on Paid and Traded Reviews – by Anne R. Allen…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Amazon’s paid review crackdown may have punished “over a million” innocent customers. My inbox has been bursting with unsolicited emails for the past few weeks. I must be on a new list of “easy prey” circulating in the the author-scamming community. Continue reading HERE
Profile of Word Weaver Writing Contest 3rd PLACE WINNER Heather Kindt, “Dreamers”
Originally posted on DAN ALATORRE:
your humble host What goes on inside the writerly mind? Let’s sit down with the second of our two Word Weaver Writing Contest 3rd place winners, Heather Kindt, and find out. Heather Kindt grew up in Derry, New Hampshire, but now resides in the mountains of Colorado with her husband…
#Detroit Public Library Spring Author Series: @CharlieLeDuff via @detroitlibrary – Main #michiganwriter #motownwriters #michlit
Originally posted on Motown Writers Network . . . Michigan Literary Network:
RSVP NOW DESCRIPTION “Sh*tshow! The Country’s Collapsing and the Ratings Are Great” A daring, firsthand, and an utterly-unscripted account of the crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President–at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author…
My Journey into Creating a Publishing Company…Part One
Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
If I go back to when I first started writing in 2012 I didn’t know squat about publishing, never mind needing lessons in grammar, and the person’s voice. Like many others out there I tried traditional publishing. You remember the first publisher of Fifty Shades? It was an…
Facebook Floods Amazon With Fake Reviews
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As you know, comments on an Amazon page can make or break a product. That’s why the company says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are legitimate because they are written by real shoppers who aren’t paid for them. But a Washington Post examination by Elizabeth Dwoskin and…
Seeds of Change
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
‘Dr Dee’, ‘Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I’, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’ and ‘Master Shakespeare’ Time does strange things. It is just a week since our workshop and already it feels as if it is receding into the mists, and yet, it is also as clear and sharp as…
Heroes don’t Discriminate #HealingHands #Faith #Inspiration
Originally posted on Jacquie Biggar-USA Today Best-selling author :
? The past few days I have been stunned and saddened by the catastrophic events that have taken place here in Canada and in the United States. Instead of belabouring the senselessness of these acts of violence I want to focus on the first responders who stepped…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 