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Mar.01.2009 Ten Free Tips for Writers Since life is essentially very good, but times are hard for a lot of folks just now, I'm posting the following tips to help you write your bio-vignette. I generally like to send out these tips from my ‘Home' page in exchange for your email address for my data base (very important!), but today...	Mar.01.2009 Waiting on that next book deal I'm in that limbo that many authors find themselves in. I have a publisher - Adams Media - for whom I wrote two books in the last few years: The Everything Blogging Book and Streetwise Ecommerce. But I'm antsy to get another book out there, and my current publisher can't rally interest in it. I'm...
Mar.01.2009 Read the Alert When I was little, I read to try to find a place of happiness, interest, joy. I read to find out who I was because someone had to have the answer. I sure as hell had no clue, and neither did my parents or the confused and upset teachers around me every year. The good news was that in books, there...	Feb.28.2009 Ah...shiny things! Just a short post today to mention that I received my ARCs of The Third Sign on Friday (and without a whole lot of fanfare, sitting right next to the shipment of our dog's food, of all things...who says the author's life isn't glamorous?), and it was a lot more fun opening the box than I thought it...
Feb.27.2009 Damn Dan, The Art of The Bard (Difference between writing and ranting) I remember once reading an article in the New York Times about an artist. This artist put sperm to canvas. Yes, that's right folks, no misspelling or senior moment. I said SPERM. Now many of you may have the same knee-jerk reaction I did when reading it… yuck. Who the hell would buy something like...	Feb.27.2009 I Must Tell so I Must Write! Blog: “I Must tell so I Must Write” I couldn’t wait to finish high school, so I could begin Wilfred Academy, school of cosmetology. I wanted to be a hairstylist. I wanted it so bad that it was all I could think about, and dreamed of, every time I looked at someone— I imagined how I...
Feb.27.2009 Too much of a good thing? The first thing I do after my normal pre-sitting at the computer morning routine is to plop down on my non-ergonomic chair, check my main email account, read the newspaper online, do the crossword puzzle, crypto-quip, and jigsaw puzzle (no - i never got into doing sudoku - staring at numbers gives...	Feb.27.2009 Truth is a must in fiction Real life happens, and, paradoxically, that is what fiction is about. Back in the stone-age days of the early 80s, I worked for Redbook magazine, which taught young married women how to manage the physicality of home and family, while supposedly reflecting...
Feb.26.2009 To Begin With My mother never married my father. There is a word among my people for what that makes me: a narrator. You know why writers kill themselves? They're desperate for an ending. It takes forever for the sap to rise. In the beginning was the chirp; and the chirp was made feather. If God really thought...	Feb.26.2009 It's over when it's over. I always think beginnings of books are the funnest part to write, because every possibility lies before you, and any direction is possible. You're still free to create characters, choose wacky names, invent problems and do research. It's just cool, and so energizing! Endings, on the other hand...

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