I Haiku You
In the meantime, here is my annual, perpetual spring haiku:
Drifting pear tree petals
Look like SoCal snow
Isn't this exciting?
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Listen to this article"Thru the darkness of Future PastI've been thinking about death this week, more specifically, about writing a personal essay and starting an Artist Trading Cards series on the topic. This poem(?) has enchanted me for years, and here's one meaning I've decrypted:
the magician longs to see
one chants out between two worlds
Fire - walk with me." ~ lynchnet.com/tp/
Magicians desire to know the hidden future (which will instantly become the past). A particular magician stands at the crack/line/surface/veil between life/good and death/evil and calls out to fire, the element of both underground heat/hell/death/evil and aboveground air/heaven/good/life. The magician believes fire will allow movement between both realms, enabling vision or knowledge of past events which were/are the future and future events which are/will be the past.All the slashes indicate alternative words which occur to me. One may sing to you best. Other poetry dealing with death just won a poet a Pulitzer Prize.
chapter action-adventure and mystery books, for readers 8 - 13, that I would have liked as a child. My books are highly visual, with lots of humor, dialog, and plenty of heart-pounding action....my books are larger than most, the paper is bright white, and the type is larger. Sentences and paragraphs are short, the books contain a lot of dialog and humor, along with heart-pounding action and adventure, and a lot of dialog. Most chapters end in a cliffhanger.See additional information on Anderson's books with nearly 50 pages of reviews and his Books for Boys blog. A photo, bio and bibliography of Anderson's publications are on Amazon.
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However, also recently deceased John Updike is a good example. He began social networking early in life, even before his career began. He moved in the circles of people who were interested in the topics he wrote about. He participated in American life through church, politics and memberships in organizations.Labels: authors, books, writing
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Listen to this articleGenerally, if you’re wondering if you’re about to do something clueless, just don’t do it. This is because people might not know that you’re clueless, but if you do these things, you’ll remove all doubt. However, the last rule, and the most important, is this: Don’t be afraid to break these rules. Like I said, there is no right and wrong on Twitter. There’s only what works for you and what doesn’t.1. Don’t tell other people how to tweet.
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Want to be sure yours is read by the publication's audience? Paul J. Krupin of Direct Contact PR is testing an offer of a *FREE* copy of the ebook version of his Trash Proof News Releases, available from Smashwords. He says, "The book contains 200 plus pages of strategies, tactics, psychology, and sample news releases and can help people do the right thing better than anything else I've seen in the marketplace to date." Get 'em while they're hot!My business model doesn't rely specifically on publishing income. But I will be using my writing as a calling card to drive multiple streams of income.Here today I offer you a two-fer: a free ebook to help you market whatever and insight into the meaning of "platform" and how self-publishing non-fiction books can work for you.
Now this may not fit for those who simply derive income from published works. But I highly recommend this approach to those who can do it diversify their intellectual property, their skills, abilities and knowledge and contract or package their knowledge in other small bite size service deliverable that people will buy whether it be by the page, by the hour, by the day or whatever.
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Listen to this articleAuthorAdvance is a complete social network that lets writers connect, share interests, and find help with their work. Expanded listings allow users to add and edit publishers, markets, contests and resources to help them improve their work and find publication. Enhanced submission tracking helps writers organize their careers and free up more time for writing. Best of all, everything's connected, making it easier than ever to find the information you want and meet people with similar interests and goals.I was supposed to be getting a scoop on the big reveal and preview access, but that hasn't come through yet, so I can't give my impressions. If indeed it helps free up time to write, it will eliminate one of the greatest complaints working writers have: too little time to write for dealing with the "business" that surrounds a writing career.
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When you write about the mystical, you believe in it. That is the rule of thumb and the best advice I can give to writers who attempt to write about religion and its formidably puzzling characters and events.Read all of Popescu's article.
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Listen to this articleRead the whole interview here and in brief at BlogCritics.org.I’m a hat-wearing mama. And boots and glittery shawls. These days an author must give it all they’ve got. Besides book signings, book club appearances, library workshops, blogging, writing forums, and writing for my community newsletter, I make wide use of the internet. An author website at Dorraine Darden.com, along with twitter, face book, my space, your space, and the whole Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Right now, though I’m carving out time to write again. This is where it all begins.
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Listen to this articleAll publishers, Scribner included, are guardians of the books that authors entrust to them. Someone who inherits an author’s copyright is not entitled to amend his work. There is always the possibility that the inheritor could write his own book offering his own corrections.A. E. Hotchner is the author of the memoirs Papa Hemingway, a fond remembrance I strongly recommend.
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Listen to this articlePresumably, because it is better to have your story published, even for free, than to have it sitting forever on your hard drive. In other words, it's a kind of vanity publishing.Only if the process is totally automated, as I sometimes suspect it is with those "article marketing" sites. Not only does no one edit the product, possibly they aren't even aware of what their software is doing. Let's all try uploading some severe erotica and see what happens. Or hate lit. Never mind, back to the question of what is vanity publishing.
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Listen to this articleJames Ellroy is the critically acclaimed author of My Dark Places, American Tabloid, The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. In The Hilliker Curse—Ellroy's four-part memoir running in the April, June, September and November 2009 issues of Playboy—the modern dean of noir delves into his tangled sexual and romantic history. In the first installment of Playboy's new writers series Walkabout, Ellroy invites our readers to visit the places in Los Angeles that haunt him and to meet the ghosts that possess him still.
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In Los Angeles, you can take tours of the haunts of dead writers and their characters, but Ellroy is a living legend and conducts his own tour. A unique opportunity.
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- Nonsense poet Edward Lear (1812; d.1888)
- Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti nee Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828; 1882)
- Singapore-born mystery writer, creator of Simon Templar (The Saint), Leslie Charteris nee Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin (1907)
- Alabama native, African American novelist and essayist Albert L. Murray (1916), who incorporated a blues aesthetic into his novels
- writer of animal stories Farley Mowat (1921)
- Philadelphia-born novelist and poet Rosellen Brown (1939)


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- Sign up at WhoRepresents.com or PublishersMarketPlace.com to find agents, publishers and generally who is representing the person you'd like to contact.
- Too simple-sounding, but it works: Google them.
- Use an online phone book like Verizon's WhitePages.comAsk your friends. It's surprising how many know people who know people.
- Join LinkedIn and you'll undoubtedly discover how to get to the people you want to reach.
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Most people write and publish books for a profit, for a cause, or for the simple fun of it. Then there are we who are driven to write and/or publish by irresistible compulsions and by the demands of our own egos to share with the world what we think about this or that subject or issue, concern or conceit.You can find Cox's monthly reports at MBR: Jim Cox Reports Index and subscribe by email to: mbr[AT]execpc.com.
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...Nuffer reveals Hemingway in a personal light that even early reviews by scholars grudgingly admit they never knew....and mentions the publisher, Xlibris, on the front page. Towards the end of the article she mentions Nuffer's decision to self-publish after shopping his manuscript to only five agents, and she quotes him, "They all came back and said 'No.' I knew I had to self publish."
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Listen to this articleDear Georganna,I noticed you are an excellent reviewer on Amazon.May I introduce to you an excellent entertaining culture ebook as a gift? The book fosters culture that enriches communities. I am an author in Taiwan.From this link [...], you could read an entertaining small free PDF eBook*, which is a sample book. Please feel free to send the ebook to friends. This eBook will be beneficial to them for understanding "an ancient art."
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Listen to this articleThe question intrigues me with the genre of his novel. A memory is very precious to people. They are not only something very personal, they're free. Then, when we begin to lose our memories due to illness or old age, it's a tragedy. In Mr. Agualusa's book, memories are more than just precious. They are a precious commodity. If his world were a reality, which end of the spectrum would he rather be on character wise, the one that sells the memories or the one who receives them?