My ratio is off. And I’m not talking about the 34-26-34 measurements that rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot made so famous (though I could very well be but that’s another blog post for another time) . I’m talking about my positivity ratio. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a woman who has spent twenty years researching the effect of thinking [...]
Savory Summer Blog Hop 2012
Middle of January may seem a bit early to be looking towards summer. Call it post vacation blues, but plans are underfoot, both for family travel as well as blog content (amongst a range of other things including the publication of more books! As part of my resolve in 2012 to keep upping my game [...]
Indie as Publishing Style, not Marketing Strategy
In September of 2010 I took the plunge and become an “independent” or self published author. I took short stories I wrote ten years ago during a Master’s program (never having found an agent) and two blogs in different genres, found a graphic designer, and created an Amazon.com author page as well as one on [...]
Does God Watch American Football?
You don’t have to be into American football to know that this season a 24 year old named Tim Tebow is taking the field — and airwaves and blogsphere and Twitter — drawing unprecedented coverage (if you’ll forgive the pun) from sources as far flung as the BBC World Service. And not just for his [...]
Your Best Year Ever?
There’s a lot of hemming and hawing about New Year’s resolutions: the last few years it’s become fashionable to be against them. Ninety percent of them are broken, experts say, and gyms love January as a month they rake in more income than at any other time of year. If that’s what you’re looking for, [...]
The Year According to Em
Earlier in the year I hosted Emlyn in the Writer’s Studio to talk about her book, Farsighted. She’s a writer and also the powerhouse behind Novel Publicity, a multi-service company that organizes blog tours, promotes indie books, and provides free information about the world of publishing. This year has been full of back to back tours: I’ve gotten emails from [...]
Inside the Writers’ Studio with Monique Domovitch
A few days before Christmas (and well in Hanukkah) but a writer’s work is never done. Join me for the last edition of Inside the Writers’ Studio, featuring an interview with Monique Domovitch author of a thriller with a variety of international settings set in the 1940s-1960s. For those you who didn’t always want to [...]
I Surrender to 2011
Every generation must feel as though theirs is the one to leave footprints on history: “Where you when…” insert your iconic moment. For children of the ’80s this includes the Columbia shuttle explosion and the ’60s can’t be discussed without the assassination of JKF. But when we look back on 2011, there are so many [...]
Kickstart into Creativity: 30 Days to Fund a Webseries Pilot
There are two parts of creativity that I’ve been able to delve very deeply into since I quit my day job last June. The first is writing. From National Novel Writing Month this November to the publishing three ebooks, posting on this blog, and the magazines I contribute to, it has not been an idle [...]
Inside the Writers’ Studio with Lauren Clark
I love hosting writers on the blog because we each come to our craft differently and who can’t use an inspirational story to get back to that novel project? Lauren Clark has been a voracious reader since the age of four and would rather be stranded at the library than on a desert island. In [...]
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