Here is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. And what does a horse have to do with it? You’ll see at the end. Enjoy…. One of the joys of living in the suburbs is the inevitability of the Lawn Wars. You know what I mean. Who has the […]
In a recent article, New York Times columnist David Brooks made a case for studying liberal arts in college. He said that in these difficult economic times many students are thinking they need to focus only on classes that lead directly to specific jobs. While that is a good approach on many levels, Brooks also
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Thank goodness I can always count on my friend, Tracy Farr, to have something fun to read on his blog. I have been out of town for a few days and swamped with work, so coming up with something new for the blog is a challenge I just can’t deal with right now. Tracy is
Here is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. Enjoy…. Since our family didn’t take many formal vacations, a primary source of recreations for a lot of summers involved going to the neighborhood pool. I’d bargain with the kids to leave me alone in the mornings to work, then
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The buzz in publishing is all about marketing, branding, establishing a platform and promoting. It’s enough to make a writer’s head spin. Thankfully, there are a lot of resources to help us as we try to navigate our way through an area we are not familiar with, nor particularly comfortable in. Just like there are
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Here is a peek at the coverart for my mystery that will be released in December by Five Star Cengage/Gale. The story is set in Dallas, so that is the Dallas skyline and the police badge is a picture of a real officer’s badge. A friend let me take a picture of his to send
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I am pleased to have as my guest today, Donna Fletcher Crow, who is the author of 35 books, mostly novels dealing with British history. Instead of detailing her publishing history, I will let the interview we did introduce you to Donna and her work. She titled the interview “The Power of Story” and I
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I just read a STORY in the New York Post online about a ‘novel’ approach to marketing and promoting a book. Jennifer Belle, who’s latest book , “The Seven Year Bitch,” was just released, is the best-selling author of “Going Down” and “High Maintenance.” But she didn’t rely on just her reputation to boost sales
Server Downby J.M. Hayes ISBN:978-1-59058-627-3HC from Poisoned Pen Press – May 2009 Reviewed by Carl Brookins Poisoned Pen Press is probably the elite crime fiction publisher in the nation right now. Their standards are very high and under Barbara Peters gimlet eye and firm editorial hand, they rarely stumble. Having Bob always around to beat
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I belong to a promotional site along with a lot of other terrific writers, and lest that sound too boastful, I was trying to find a way to leave myself out of the terrific category, but there was no other way to write that sentence. Anyway, Books We Love has a great contest every summer