For the Love of Bringing Books to Life: Write, Publish, and Be Known
Writing Memoir: An Interview with Richard Hoffman
Each June, I look forward to the Ocean State Summer Writing Conference sponsored by the University of Rhode Island–both as a presenter and a participant. I especially enjoy the first two days of Advanced Workshops–always with great writing teachers. My first year, I took a memoir workshop with Richard Hoffman–not so much to write my own memoir, which I can’t help thinking would be fairly dull, but to support my clients and students writing memoir. The workshop was great fun and I was actually surprised to enjoy what I wrote. When I heard Richard is returning to URI once I[...]
What’s AOL Done to My Huff Po?
I don’t remember seeing an ad pop up (and darken the rest of my screen!) when I click on a link from outside the Huff Po to read an article on the Huff Po. And I don’t remember having an video ad pop up when I click on my first headline. Maybe a minor annoyance, something I have to put up with to read the news and engaging columns and posts by columnists I enjoy. Maybe. But it’s annoying enough that I’ll have second thoughts about clicking on a busy day. I can see my reading habits change already. Yes,[...]
Joining the James Frey: Is it Okay to Lie in Your Memoir?
Oprah’s interviews with James Frey and the recent article in Salon about his first interview with Oprah drew intense emotions on both sides of the issue. Some say memoir is fiction anyway–who can really remember honestly exactly what happened in one’s life? So what’s a little tinkering with truth? Others say James Frey is ruining it for everyone (everyone being serious writers of memoir) because as readers question the veracity of all memoirs, memoirs lose their power–why not just read fiction? And some say, “Who cares?” I’m in the “I care” camp. While there’s no way to capture “the absolute[...]
Amazon Author Central: Claim Your Author Page Today
My fabulous Virtual Assistant Geri Lafferty told me to snag my Amazon Central Author Page a few weeks ago. Last night, my husband, Tom,an expert on SEO (search engine optimization) and Google searches echoed her suggestion. Tom often tells me what to do–and his advice works–I usually come up first and second place for searches on “writing coach,” “book writing coach” and “book proposal coach” on Google. I finally hopped to it, staying up past midnight to complete it. No. That’s not because it was complicated at all. It’s because I started on the project around 11:30 pm and couldn’t[...]
Joshua Edwards Wrote 10 E-books in 3 Days: Here’s How
This is the second time Joshua Home Edwards has facilitated the technical details for my Bring Your Book to Life Program teleseminar series. The first time around he told me the classes inspired him and that some day he hoped to write a book. Second time around, he started thinking about really writing that book and I shared the course materials with him. In 3 days he’d written 10 E-books, each one with 35 prayers of gratitude from people around the world to the God of their understanding. I was struck by the power of the story about how this[...]
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