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Write it Right - Tips for Authors is FREE this Week

Write it Right - Tips for Authors, Volume I is a FREE download this week on smashwords.com, from 3/06 to 3/12.

Use Code JZ68A at checkout.

Find it here:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/MaryDeal

Added by Mary Deal on March 6, 2011 at 6:32am — No Comments

Blog Talk Radio - for Everyone

I was interviewed by Nadia Giordana of Extraordinary Women on

BlogTalkRadio a few months ago. You can still hear the Interview here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/extraordinarywomen/2010/02/18/novelist...

By the way, Blog Talk Radio is for everyone. Simply go to the site and see

who is looking for people to interview. Or maybe you find… Continue

Added by Mary Deal on February 20, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

Borders Store Closures

Borders' list of store closures in effect by the end of April, they say:

http://www.bordersreorganization.com/Reorganization_Closure_List.pdf

Added by Mary Deal on February 17, 2011 at 3:11pm — 2 Comments

My eBook: Write it Right - Tips for authors, Volume I

Finally! My eBook, Write it Right - Tips for Authors, Volume I, is available in all downloadable formats on Smashwords. You can read the first 30% free.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/39011

"Write it Right - Tips for Authors, Vol. I, written and compiled by an award-winning novelist, is a major…

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Added by Mary Deal on February 14, 2011 at 11:37am — 1 Comment

Amazon Removing Book Reviews

Seems amazon is arbitrarily removing book reviews from their site. Read the article first. Then, if you value your reviews for promo purposes, I suggest you copy and paste your review pages to your word processor. These reviews were "gifts" given to you to use. I wouldn't wait to do this.

http://www.readerviews.com/Newsletters/2011.01/31.html

Added by Mary Deal on January 31, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Another independent, local bookstore has the book!

I managed to cross state lines and get another book into an indie bookstore! If you're in Mississippi go and check out Bay Books on Main street. The owner is very accomodating and she has two very cool cats that take up residence inside. Most importantly, you can get a copy of I Wandered from New Orleans right off the shelf! In real live bookstores in New Orleans, Mississippi and Atlanta! It's too bad that poetry is mostly disregarded by people as being too complicated and vague.…

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Added by Tracy L. Conway on December 3, 2010 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Embracing the Unexpected - Parenting a Child With Special Needs - Review by Lauren S. Smith

There's Something About Daniel - http://www.robynstecher.com/

There's Something About Daniel: A journey with my son through complexity, life and love, written by Robyn Stecher, is both candid and compelling - a story of a mother's love and how she embraces the unexpected arrival of a child with special needs. Stecher never allowed the challenges that Daniel's life presented to cause either of them suffer.

Instead, Stecher…

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Added by Sarah Garris on September 9, 2010 at 11:16am — No Comments

E-class starts soon: Publish That Book: How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal That Sells

Let me show you through my intense, 8-week-long workshop how to get a nonfiction book proposal ready for publishers. This is your opportunity to gain a serious business advantage over other writers who will try to wing it. And even if your first book doesn’t sell, you will have the skills and the template to apply to other ideas and other projects. You may even come up with more ideas for more books as you work through this course.

And my workshop is different. I keep the classes small… Continue

Added by Andrea Campbell on March 31, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Satis Shroff: Lehrbeauftragter aus dem Himalaya in Freiburg

Satis Shroff is a prolific writer and teaches Creative Writing at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg http://www.zfs.uni-freiburg.de/zfs/dozent/lehrbeauftragte4/index_html/#shroff. He is a lecturer, poet and writer and the published author of three books: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelogue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese authors, edited by Satis Shroff). His lyrical… Continue

Added by Satis Shroff Lecturer, Writer on May 9, 2009 at 6:25am — No Comments

Now featuring an author interview every day!

I just started a new program called "10 Questions for..." in which I ask authors the same 10 questions about writing life, their work space, funny stories about their writing career, etc.

I posted the request for authors on HARO and got more than 600 emails in a matter of hours! Come read these interesting Q & A's and feel free to post writing-related questions.

http://askWendy.wordpress.com

Added by Wendy Burt-Thomas on February 8, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

I'm plugging a book BESIDES my own!!

Kelly Curtis, who writes the blog Pass the Torch honored me by sending me an advance copy of her new book, Empowering Youth: How to Encourage Young Leaders to Do Great Things. On the back cover, she poses the question: How do you bring out the power in young people?

Throughout this well-written and fascinating book, Curtis explains how important it is that kids be given opportunities to thrive, and she gives examples of situations where youths have led projects, founded… Continue

Added by John Pearson on August 16, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments