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Effective Blogs & Amazon Author Central-Best of Dec 26, 2013

Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers who  have either created the articles or shared them from their perusal of the internet.  This week’s top four: How to become a highly effective blogger using WordPress        Wordpress Excels Three Steps […]

Wounded Veterans & Teenage Rebellion Fr Blogger’s Twitter Pal Daily

The Wounded Who Gave Their Lives…          Wounded Veterans of World War I Top Ten Teenage Rebellion Movies             Who Doesn’t Like a Teen Rebel? Can Book Reviewers Be Beta Readers?   Are They Interchangeable? Benefits of Creating Your Own Newspaper Online    Content Curation From my daily copy of […]

Submitting Work to the National Playwrights Conference – A Diary

The National Playwrights Conference is the preeminent laboratory for development of new plays.  It is daunting to even think about the prospect of being one of 7 or so playwrights who will stay at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT for a month in the summer working on their baby, their play. Each […]

Do Minority Writers Have an Advantage?

American Readers Like Unconventional Characters, but… In an article Amit Mujmudar wrote for the NY Times on May 5 entitled Am I an ‘Immigrant Writer‘?,  he explores writing for the American fiction reading world as a minority.    Almost immediately he concludes that “a minority author may well have an advantage”.  It stems from the American reader’s appetite […]

Blogging With Video, Hoping to Go Viral

This is an article from the NY Times Personal Tech Section by Kate Murphy on the subject of using video in your blog.  Right off the bat Kate reveals what you may already know: 90% of YouTube videos are painful to watch.  So, I immediately began to revisit my cringes at watching my own video […]

November Book Tour Stops

November Book Tour Monday, October 29 is the kickoff for my book tour.  20 stops along the way with giveaways at 8 of them!  Please join me at the stops and share your comments on interviews, reviews and guest posts. 10/29  Yvonne Mikell   Interview & Giveaway 10/31  Queen of the Night Reviews  Review & Guest Post 11/2 […]

Is playing soccer like falling in love?

  Possibly.  Gretchen Reynolds writing in the NY Times notes that “this question is the focus of a provocative and growing body of new science examining the role of oxytocin (‘the love hormone’) in competitive sports.”   Reynolds explains that “oxytocin is a brain peptide that is known to promote positive inter-social relations.” New mothers are […]