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Jun.16.2011
I'm not sure if hosting someone else on your blog helps more than giving a review, but we all celebrate when another author releases a book, renewing hope in our own ventures. What do you do to help someone else and how does it (or even should it?) help you?
Well, the debate can begin there, but I...
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Jan.25.2011
Yesterday I saw the ultimate bookmark. It contains a timer so that you can read for a set amount of time. It is the next big thing, I'm sure. Even more interesting was the statement at the bottom of the bookmark saying that you can read this timer in the dark. I'm not sure how you could read in...
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Dec.17.2010
I've been visiting the fictious town of Portwenn and wish I could live there sometimes. Doc Martin is one of those tv series you can watch for free online but want to buy anyway. Just to have a piece of it. I feel like I know those Brits because in my life, in some ways, I do.
Doc is rude,...
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Aug.27.2010
Morning tv. The "news." In my daily migration through the channels I came across the phenom of "Laugh Clubs". These are, I'm told, springing up all over the country. You go, everybody starts laughing and that's it. Cathartic. No need for jokes, punchlines, pranks, you just...
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Aug.14.2010
This was my first book signing at Waldenbooks, the first that was not at an independent bookstore. Not sure yet if it should be my last. Most of the time people avoided eye contact as I sat and smiled or stood and handed out bookmarks. I even had free candy. Didn't help much.
Yet the most...
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Aug.13.2010
·Don’t sell yourself short. It’s okay to self-publish, write for free or get pennies for each internet view if you need to start or get credentials, just don’t stay there to avoid rejections or working with editors.
·Don’t do it alone. Sometimes you’ll need encouragement and sometimes you’ll...
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Aug.13.2010
· Don’t sell yourself short. It’s okay to self-publish, write for free or get pennies for each internet view if you need to start or get credentials, just don’t stay there to avoid rejections or working with editors.· Don’t do it alone. Sometimes you’ll need encouragement and sometimes you’ll...
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Jul.31.2010
Courting Constance, my second novel, is released today.
I have asked over twenty sources for reviews and so far have two. If anyone has advice on how to improve the odds, please let me know. But today, new book, new hopes...celebrate the possibilities.
Here are the taglines to my book's first...
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Jun.21.2010
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In a book I recently finished, the author said that fads, trends and even the Ya-Ya bestselling phenomenon can be analyzed AND duplicated. One secret? 7 degrees of separation. Find that one connection, that one expert or trendsetter that can do what you can't. Get people to read your book....
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Apr.28.2010
A woman who died is being sued for an extra month's rent since she didn't give 30 days notice that she was "leaving." Seriously, I'm not making this up. Her son was on the news quite understandably furious with the apartment owner. The owner of the apartment basically said,...
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Dec.24.2009
I'm listening to/watching Christmas music on channel 433 on the tv with the random Christmas facts scrolling to divert me from singing along (a good thing). Anyway, it said that in Poland that children get gifts TWICE during the holiday season. Interesting thought. (Glad my kids didn't see it...)...
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Nov.17.2009
The outer limits of cable channels are just that. As I flipped to a show in which two perky and loudly dressed ladies sat in an RV, I marveled at what I was paying for. They sat smugly watching a video of some poor unsuspecting fellow who needed a "makeover". I had to think the setting...
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Oct.28.2009
Have you seen the movie Dear Frankie? I have, several times, but then I'm a sucker for fairy tales. I really loved it. But you be your own judge. We Americans are supposed to use the English subtitles to understand the Scottish accent, but I've watched my Hamish MacBeth enough times to not need...
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Sep.03.2009
How to have a bestselling book:
1. Be a celebrity
2. Be endorsed by a celebrity
3. Have a movie made of your book by a celebrity
So how do you become a celebrity?
1. Be on a reality show or really stupid video
2. Be endorsed by a celebrity
3. Write a bestselling...
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Aug.16.2009
Imagine how Jane Austen would feel to live in a 140 character world where briefs are king and too many words are instantly tuned out. I think she’d still find a way to poke fun and satirize our techy times. But, oh, what a difference in how. Do you think some of her most famous quotes would now...
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About Teryl
My goal is to be published in as many genres as possible and I feel extremely fortunate to have partially realized this dream already. This year my first novel, a Regency romance, came out (A Sensible Match, Vintage Romance Publishing) and my first play (...
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Causes Teryl Cartwright Supports
United Methodist Committee on Relief, American Red Cross, Heifer Project, American Cancer Society, Doctors without Borders
Teryl’s Favorite Books
Black Sheep, Talisman Ring, Sackett, Fallon, Flint, Pride and Prejudice, A Whack in the Side of the Head