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 […]
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Life Lessons & Top Christmas Films Fr Larry’s Twitter Pal Daily Dec 25
From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have chosen them from their perusal of the internet. In any case, what results is a […]
Writer’s Platform & Achaeology Fr Larry’s Twitter Pal Daily Dec 24
From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have chosen them from their perusal of the internet. In any case, what results is a […]
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 […]
“That Part Where…” An Exciting Excerpt From “A Bridge to Treachery”
Ben Wallace in his blog ” That Part Where” is offering a chance to publicize my thriller novel by highlighting an unforgettable scene from the work. The idea is that readers often take away a single scene from books they read. The scene I’ve chosen is when Lou Christopher and his beautiful accomplice […]
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 […]