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People often ask what it was like writing a book with a former mobster. Following is an excerpt from my newsletter describing the experience from my perspective.
Writing CULLOTTA – The Author and the Hit Man…
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With computer keyboard and the possiblity of typos, do you always write what you thought you wrote?
Does the reader understand what you wrote in the way you intended them to?
There are plenty of opportunities for us to be excellent communicators, or poor communicators, as writers. And isn't the art of good writing to be a great communicator, to influence others, to educate, inspireor entertain them?
Well, it is even more difficult if you are not working in your native…
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How about a coffee shop as a place to get your inspiration? Poet Richard McKane often chases his muse in a coffee shop. Anywhere in the world ... Istanbul, London ... the atmosphere is the same.
For Richard McKane, the coffeehouse holds a special magic. In the coffeehouse, he says, the poet and the reader need not be alone. A good conversation in a coffeehouse, for him, lays itself in the memory like a good poem. He sees a coffeehouse as a place to feel safe and warm…
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During the fall and spring of 1999-2000 I suffered from a recurring bout of sore throat problems. The doctor would put me on antibiotics, it would clear up and then return. I was then diagnosed with sleep apnea. I was put on a c-pap machine to help me breathe as I slept. The machine burned out, even while set on its highest pressure setting. This happened two or three times.
I paid a visit to a nurse at the VA clinic and she advised me to go see an ear, nose, throat specialist at the…
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Think of CBS reporter Steve Hartman in a pencil skirt. OK. Maybe not. But that pretty much explains what I do. The stories I write. In this particular caper I invaded the local laundromat in my own hometown to "watch the clothes." But I didn't stop there. I interviewed a few patrons, sent a few mothers and their children scampering for cover and well......came out dripping wet with a story to remember. Click below for the tale of the suds.…
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I'd like to get some of your opinions as to why people come to the U.S. to live. As many of you know, those that come here are mostly poor and seeking a better way to live. Unfortunately, for most of these immigrants the only way to cross is illegally. That doesn't make things right, but on the other hand most of these individuals do not have another choice.
This is what my book "Mass Exodus the Story of an Illegal Immigrant" is about and how something as simple as…
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One of the stories I share in the book is about my first Christmas outside the United States on the northern tip of Japan at Wakkanai. I was a young Air Force Airman and walked into the dinning hall on Christmas…
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A copy of my Stodghill Says So blog:
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There is a new wave of online marketing on the rise―virtual book tours (also known as virtual author tours or blog tours). About five years ago, various authors decided to promote their works online at host sites and announce those dates just…
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Welcome to The Dark Phantom Review, Cheryl! It’s nice to have you here. Why don’t you start by telling us a bit about your book, and what inspired you to write such a story?
Thank you for having me here.
Whale Song is an emotional…
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One very common mistake that online service professionals make is providing endless information on their website, blog, or ezine without asking for anything in return (i.e. selling a product or service). Now, that doesn't really make much sense, does it? How do you stay in business if you don't have any sales?
I have had clients who simply like to have their products sit obscurely for sale on their websites and do little to make their list members or…
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Being in the business that I'm in often means that my colleagues and competitors often promote themselves with the lure of living a very rich life (lots of money, expensive cars, owning McMansions, exotic vacations) in which you work only a few hours per week. In some cases, these wild claims are probably actually true. However, I'm not yet rolling in the dough, so I have to show up at…
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Six children and their mother were lashed to a rope, drowning, each dragging the next into watery darkness. Angelic faces, contorted by terror, faded into the cold black abyss. The mother tried desperately to fight the increasingly cutting weight around her waist. Her beautiful dark eyes stared up. Lace-covered arms reached for the surface; her mouth opened, silently pleading to God for help. The…
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