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How to Pitch Your Book to an Agent or Publisher: Writing a Killer Blurb

Today, I'm excited to share a guest post from Award-winning Author Mayra Calvani. She is stopping by as part of her World of Ink Virtual Author Tour this month.

 

Mayra not only writes fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She’s a reviewer for The New York Journal of Books and co-editor of Voice in the Dark ezine.

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Added by VS Grenier on February 6, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Children of the Dragon - Red Dragon - Theresa M. Moore, Author

Children of the Dragon – Red Dragon – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat 
 
 
“It takes an Asian to understand another Asian, you know what I mean?”  “I’m not sure.  Are you saying I can’t do this because I’m a white man?”  Well…yes,” she said.  “In order to see what’s going on you need to…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on January 28, 2011 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Publishing Requires Patience by Cheryl C. Malandrinos



I was askedto draft a guest post about what I learned from publishing a book. There areseveral things I could have mentioned, but the one that stuck out the most tome was patience.



I’ve…

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Added by VS Grenier on January 6, 2011 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

To Taste the Dragon's Blood, Childen of the Dragon - Theresa M. Moore, Author

To Taste the Dragon’s Blood – Children of the Dragon – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat



‘Mars. Small, cold, foreboding, so close to Earth….. For billions of years it remained that way, untouched and untouchable by man, glinting redly in the night sky, until one Martian “spring” day in July of 2069 when the Earth…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on December 15, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

World of Ink Guest Post: Lessons Learn from Writing Children's Books with Marsha Casper Cook

Lessons Learn from Writing Children's Books‏



By: Marsha Casper Cook…



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Added by VS Grenier on December 8, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

What Makes a Good Story with World of Ink December '10 Tour Guest Author J.D. Holiday









I talked with J.D. Holiday about her latest book, “The Great Snowball Escapade” and what she considered the basic ingredients of a good story. We all know the things that keep you reading until the last page of course, but what are those things and are they the same things in…

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Added by VS Grenier on December 1, 2010 at 11:30pm — 6 Comments

Beginning and Other Posts--Karen Gammons blog

http://princeandyandthemisfits.wordpress.com/

Nov. 1, 2010

Well, it is almost the end of the year. What a journey I have had! To think that in January my book was just in the editing stage and now I have books coming to me. Such an awesome experience.

If you looked at it just so, it would almost be like I was giving birth to a child. Months of it getting better and better with fine tuning. Being covered…

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Added by Karen Gammons on November 1, 2010 at 11:36pm — 2 Comments

Free Coloring Book For Kids

Join the fun this Christmas and get your free coloring book just in time for Christmas here:

http://bilbosadventures.com/fun-for-kids/

Added by Peter John Lucking on October 13, 2010 at 10:29am — No Comments

Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me" tonight at 10pm EST - "Shape Shifters" - August 25th, Wednesday

My daughter's story will be on Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me" tonight, August 25th, at 10pm EST. She was adopted from Nepal at 3 and five years later had a tapeworm in her brain. I wrote her story a well as her sister's in my book Children of Dreams. Ours is supposed to be the first segment of three. Today Manisha is a healthy 19-year-old. Be inspired! And learn how to prevent the most common neurological parasitic infection in the…

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Added by Lorilyn Roberts on August 25, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Children of Dreams - Lorilyn Roberts, Author



Children of Dreams – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat



‘Nepal is the forty-eighth poorest country in the world. Out of a

population of eighteen million, six million drink water we wouldn’t give

to our dogs… later I would find out what drinking contaminated water

could do to a seven-year-old child…. Nepal’s per capital income was only

$180 per year, one of the lowest in the world and the… Continue

Added by Martha A. Cheves on August 3, 2010 at 4:22pm — 1 Comment

My Writing World is Changing

Hello all,



It's been a long time since I posted here and many things have changed. I received my first contract for a Christian children's picture book from Guardian Angel Publishing. The Little Shepherd Boy should be out in the late fall of 2010.



In addition, I recently took over the reins of Editor of Musing Our… Continue

Added by Cheryl C. Malandrinos on July 22, 2009 at 3:34pm — No Comments

A Book and a Chat with "Susan Chodakiewitz"







On today's "Book and a Chat" my very special guest Susan Chodakiewitz. Writer, composer and producer, Susan is the founder of Booksicals Children´s Books- Encouraging the love of reading through the arts.









Through her company Booksicals she has created the Booksicals on Stage literacy program… Continue

Added by Storyheart on July 14, 2009 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Radio Guests and Other Writings



Saturdays Radio Show



My special guest on today's "Book and a Chat" was Irene Watson, Author, entrepreneur, and therapist, her life has taken her on many paths, with breakthrough results and exemplar growth, to find her authentic and true self. We… Continue

Added by Storyheart on June 13, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Crafts for Children

Hello,

My name is Doris Anne Beaulieu and I’d like to this time to talk to mail order companies and parents.

To parents I have a wonderful craft book for your child to give his or her teacher at the end of the school year. My Easy and Inexpensive Holiday Classroom Crafts for Teachers book is truly a gift that will forever keep giving from year to year, holiday after holiday. It’s a craft book for developing creative minds. This book will tell you what items you will need for each… Continue

Added by Doris Anne Beaulieu on May 17, 2009 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Miller Donates 10% of ALL Royalties



Press Release to ALL my friends



Announcement:



JAY MILLER



Inspirational Author of Children Literature will

HAPPILY donate 10% of ALL royalties from the



All God’s Critter’s Series



To

The Grace for Children Foundation Inc.





To support needy children all over the… Continue

Added by Jo-Anne Vandermeulen on April 7, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

"Bader Field" The larger vision

My story pays homage to a great man, my father, whose extraordinary qualities made him anything but ordinary. It took more than twenty years of attempts for me to wade through the love and pain of those days long gone, digging into the recesses of the past, to paint his portrait with the everlasting impressions so emblazoned in my being. He gave me so many gifts of life, I cannot even count. Those who knew him were blessed with the love, embracing kindness and innate wisdom he so freely… Continue

Added by Carl David on December 4, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

Let’s get to know each other, I’ll start!

You can learn a lot about a person by the questions others ask them. The one I hear the most is:

“Are they all yours?” That always strikes me funny, I can’t help but wonder what kind of a person would steal 14 kids and then take them all shopping for groceries with her? If I had a quarter for every time I was asked that question, I would not have needed to write a book, I could buy a TV station and share my story that way. I do indeed have fourteen children, and they really are all mine,… Continue

Added by Barbara Smith on May 31, 2008 at 11:16am — No Comments

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