Catherine Coulter will present an insider’s look at the publishing industry and how to join the game in her talk, “Stranger in a Strange Land: Publishing today.” She has written 67 books and has over 70 million books in print worldwide. Moonspun Magic, a historical romance, hit the New York Times Bestseller List in 1988 […]
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Call Me Pop, a memoir of her father by Mary Boyce, is available from www.Amazon.com.
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Jackie Bardsley and Alice Kight will both be featured in the Ina Coolbrith 2011 anthology to be published in November. Bardsley’s “The Seduction” and Kight’s “Tomorrow’s Roses” will appear in the anthology named for California’s first poet laureate (1915).
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Imagine my surprise when I saw my name and e-mail address prominently displayed on the Catherine Coulter Web site Events page! Who is Catherine Coulter, you ask? She’s only the author of sixty-five historical romance and suspense thriller novels, that’s who! And fifty-nine of them have landed on the New York Times bestseller list. So
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Nora Profit, director of The Writing Loft, will reveal the clues that mark the difference between trained writers and amateurs. Publishers and editors are willing to look at new writers, but they are leery about taking a chance on a writer unfamiliar with the rules of the craft. “With the right information, anyone can write
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An ancient Egyptian maxim reads: “It is good to speak to the future; it shall listen.” The Egyptians honored scribes – writers – and even gave them to the care of Thoth, who was also the god of knowledge and truth. We should take instruction – and comfort – from ancient writers, and speak our
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My book manuscript was finished finally. Now all I needed was an eye-catching book cover. The perfect choice for Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life! was an oil painting I’d owned for over 35 years. It pictured a seated clown listening to his own heart with a stethoscope, a medical book open
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Change is good! New meeting place. New time. Cost slashed in half.
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Even with good maps and detailed directions, I get lost. My husband gave me a GPS for Christmas, which has cut down the number of times I miss turns because I can’t read the street signs. As much as I value my map-reading skills, having Miss MapVoice tell me “turn left now” has proven more
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TVW members have been busy writing, regardless of the obstacles (read Annette Langer’s blog below for proof). The anthology is on-track for publication this fall. It will feature short stories, memoir, poetry and children’s stories from over forty members. The authors have been working all summer on the pieces, while the anthology committee has been
