Randy Ingermanson, a physicist and novelist, has a great discussion about branding for writers going on over at Advanced Fiction Writing. He has a series of posts on branding, and he’s answering a lot of questions raised by his readers. Randy is a successful author – I love his City of God series. However, he has … Read more
Mig at Pamil Visions’ eWritings introduced me to Blogger Power: Safeguard the Web for Children. The project calls on bloggers to ask adult sites to require password-protected access to safeguard children from encountering porn. Jon Howard at Force for Good and Michaela (Mig) Lica at Pamil Visions started the project to bring together the power … Read more
I am not a sports fan. Even when I was in the high school marching band and attended every football game (about a zillion years ago 🙂 ), I had no concept of what was happening on the field. Furthermore, I didn’t care. Sure, I wanted our team to win, but beyond that I had … Read more
June 14th is Flag Day in the US. I realize many of my readers are from other parts of the world. I hope you take as much pride in your home country and its flag as I take in my home country and its flag.
Readers can find books from major publishers fairly easy. It may be hard to sort through all the available titles, but the books are carried in bookstores. However, finding books published by the authors or small publishers is more of a challenge. You can’t walk into most bookstores and find independently published books. These books … Read more
Mig at eWritings invited readers to send their picture and she would let us see ourselves through her eyes. Show me your eyes and I’ll give you a dream. I’ll make it a beautiful dream, because this is what a dreamcatcher does: catches the nightmares and releases sweet dreams. So send me a picture of … Read more
One year ago today I started this adventure called blogging. Actually I had set up a Blogger site a long time ago but never developed it, and I coordinated a couple of group blogs for Christian E-Authors but never got as much participation as I’d hoped. Although I had helped several clients start blogs, they … Read more
Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog started a group writing project: What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? A number of great posts have already been submitted. My favorite is How Do You Explain Blogging to Your Mom? by Char at Essential Keystrokes. To me, blogging is a large city filled with hundreds of small neighborhoods. When you first start to … Read more
Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings has instigated a group writing project. The rules for the project can be found at What I Learned from … The topic has to relate to the world of work. In my first two jobs after college, I worked for the government. First, I worked at a military base … Read more
Today is the anniversary of D-Day, and there is a move afoot to create a new patriotic tradition and have radio stations around the country read the prayer of President Franklin Roosevelt that was broadcast to the nation on that day. I thought the prayer was worth sharing: My Fellow Americans: Last night, when I … Read more