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Merry Christmas!

Since I don’t expect to be online tomorrow or the next day, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. This is my favorite Christmas special scene:

Making Spirits Bright With Heifer International

This morning agent/blogger extraordinaire Nathan Bransford wrote this post about Heifer International and encouraged other bloggers to follow suit:

“You may have already heard of Heifer International, an organization that works to fight hunger by giving needy families around the world and in the United States livestock, training, or other assistance that helps improve their […]

The Big Five

You’ve written your book, you’ve revised it, you’ve had it edited, you’ve queried agents and while waiting for responses you decide to research who’s who in the publishing industry. Soon, of course, you realize that all the big publishing houses are owned by international media conglomerates, which may explain why they’re more interested in the […]

The Author Platform: The Blog

Like I said before, I will address different ways to build your author platform over a series of posts. This one will be about blogging. Writerland is a new blog, and I don’t claim to be an expert on blogging, but I can share some of the information I’ve gleaned from books, articles and sites […]

Back up!

Every couple of months, I get an e-mail from a friend who lost a bunch of files because he/she hadn’t been backing up regularly. I started backing up after the Sex in the City episode in which Carrie gets the sad Mac face and loses all her files. On the show, she bought a Zip […]

What you resist, persists.

This is a favorite quote from professional coach Martha Borst, with whom I took a workshop at the Grotto a couple of years back. Her workshops aren’t cheap, but they’re well worth it, and if you don’t want to spend the money, you can buy her workshop in a book on Amazon. A few things […]

Under Construction

This is my temporary blog while my “real” one is under construction. As you can see, my website hasn’t been updated since 2006! I dream of learning HTML, Dreamweaver and other wonderful web designing tools, but having given birth to two children and a memoir in the past two years, the best I could do […]