Do You Want an Agent and Publisher? – Chris Longmuir
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You’ve finished writing your book. It has an original plot
with plenty of twists and turns. It’s well written. It’s a page turner. You’ve
put your heart and ...
Strengthening My Chi to Heal My Eyesight
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I had a meltdown in Dr. Yu’s office last week. I was exhausted and stressed
trying to meet a production deadline for the teen writing and publishing
progra...
New Website
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With my website long overdue for a freshening, I've opted for a total
overhaul, an easy-to-navigate spot where a visitor can find out about my
books, read ...
Art & a little mystery in the garden
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Me & Felder Rushing's Classic Truck Garden on Wheels!
Yesterday, I was honored to be included among other artists at the annual
Art in the Garden event h...
Charles Ramsey, truth-teller
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My take on the viral phenomenon of Charles Ramsey, who helped to rescue the
women in Cleveland: THAT DIDN’T take long. Within hours of rescuing three
women...
Join me for lunch!
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I'm so happy to share this exciting news with you!! Me and four of my
author friends have come together as the YaYa Writer Girls! We're holding a
lunc...
WB Yeats And His Family Have Lunch
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Here’s a sneak peak of the book I’m working on now, The Pilgrim Soul. It’s
the first in a trilogy about love and loss, based around the lives of the
poet,...
Belated Dance Salad Foodiness
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Let me preface this by saying that I was pretty darn disappointed that
Pronk didn't do his solo, but I'm very glad that he was able to recover
from his inj...
"What Are You Afraid Of?"
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A story from American Stories NOW is now available at your magazine stand!
Check out the May 2013 issue of Reader's Digest!
(and yes that's me wa...
ASSET-STRIPPING CINEMA FOR LESSONS IN NARRATIVE
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Having recently watched Roman Polanski’s 1976 psychological thriller, The
Tenant, for the first time, I was struck once again by the degree to which
films ...
A Publishing Fairy Tale
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In the beginning there were only storytellers and those who made up their
audiences. Then the storytellers learned to write and the audiences learned
to ...
Hope Store Advances in Contest
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Okay, this news is a little late. But on February 13, 2013 -- I learned
that my novel THE HOPE STORE advanced in the Amazon contest. 10,000 novels
were...
The Resurrection of Dinah McCall
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If you’re new to my work, you won’t know who Dinah McCall was. If you’ve
been reading me for a while, then you do. So, FYI… Dinah McCall is my pen
name, an...
I Am Pollack, I Write Many Books
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Hello, everyone, new and old and in between. This is my somewhat antiquated personal website, due for a revamp at any moment. In the meantime, though, I want...
Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith'
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There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, each with an individual
view of life. So why are they viewed as a unified group, asks Mohsin Hamid,
a...
Nebula Award Winners!
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The winners are in bold. Also noted: The Norton and Bradbury awards, as
well as the Solstice and the Kevin J. O’Donnell Service to SFWA Award.
Novel: 2312,...
Can You Guess These Famous Literary Settings?
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A couple of weeks ago, I challenged you to guess some famous characters by
their physical descriptions. Well, we’re back with a similar challenge.
This tim...
You’re Welcome!
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by Christie Connolley For your viewing pleasure until we are back with
fresh content on Monday morning, I present baritone Daniel Teadt. You’re
welcome!
Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling Critique the Press
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"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that
are worth anything to protect the people from the press."
*Brain Pickings takes...
Recommended Reads for Spring 2013
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Publisher's Weekly, a professional journal for libraries, has listed some
of their picks of highly anticipated books for Spring 2013. Based on their
revi...
Bless you all
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by Pari
*Oh, so many thoughts, so many ideas. I wanted this to be a profound last
post. Instead, let me tell you a little story:*
Last week I had an ear...
