Sorry to disappoint everyone who popped over to read Friday’s Odds & Ends, but today is our wedding anniversary. I thought readers might enjoy finding out what has kept us together for 45 years. The following is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. While most of that book […]
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Please help me welcome Barri Bryan as she shares about… Images and Imagination I’m often asked where the inspiration came from for books I’ve written. Most of the time I can pinpoint a specific circumstance or event that inspired me. Occasionally I can’t. My inspiration for A Second Splendor is one of those rare occasions.
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Romance author, Barri Bryan is on a mini-blog tour for her latest book from Classic Romance Revival, and will be here tomorrow to share a bit about Images and Imagination. Come back and help me welcome Barri to It’s Not All Gravy… CRR Mini Blog Tour! CRR is delighted to host CRR Publishing and
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A long time ago I was privileged to be one of the people selected to attend a series of screenwriting classes taught by Joe Camp and his partner Erwin Hearne, of “Benji” fame. Joe, a principle behind Mulberry Square Productions in Dallas, was riding high on the success of the Benji films and wanted
Cathy Rubin co-author of The Real Alice in Wonderland contacted me recently with an interesting bit of trivia. American Independence Day and Alice in Wonderland share the same birthday. So, I not only share my birthday with my country, I share it with a timeless story. According Cathy, Friday July 4, 1862 is credited with
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I just received a message informing me that the cover for my book, PLAY IT AGAIN SAM has won the June Classic Cover Contest at the ClassicRomanceRevival Web site. As the site name implies, it promotes novels of the more classic romance style in varying degrees of “sweet” “sexy” and “sensual.” The authors affiliated with
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