Author Promotion, Authors, Books, Promotion

Free book promo, Savvywriters.com, buy one get 2 free, writing, publishing, D.G. Kaye

November 27, 2016 Tina Frisco 7 Comments

D.G. Kaye reblogging Doris Heilman of Savvywriters.com, who is offering an amazing deal for Black Friday Weekend — purchase one ebook, get 2 other ebooks free! Hope over to Debby’s blog for details …

Source: Free book promo, Savvywriters.com, buy one get 2 free, writing, publishing, D.G. Kaye

I had to reblog this, as I just came across this great deal!My friend, Doris Heilman of Savvywriters.com is offering an amazing deal for Black Friday Weekend! In case some of you aren’t familiar with Doris’ blog and newsletter, she blog is well-known for informative article directed to writers about everything publishing!

Until this Monday, Doris is offering if you purchase one of her ebooks, you email her the receipt of purchase and she will send you 2 other FREE ebooks of hers. Her books are valuable and informative resources for all writers. Have a look below at her article, where she slipped in this gem of a sale and also include some ‘SAVVY’ tips for Christmas shopping.

Why spend time and money – and stress yourself out when heading to the mall? I gave it up years ago and never looked back. Christmas shopping this year took me exactly 10 minutes.

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Author Promotion, Authors, Books, Reading, Writing

A Crow Who Became a Fictional Character – Guest Post…

November 26, 2016 Tina Frisco 2 Comments

A lovely guest post on The Story Reading Ape by Olga Kuno telling us about Cyriusha the crow ~ a bird with a broken wing rescued and cared for by her family ~ who becomes a substantial character in one of her novels . . .

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As a writer, I have often been asked whether my characters are inspired by real-life people. My answer is generally negative. Of course, I use my world knowledge and personal experience when I write a book, and this includes observations of other people’s behaviors, reactions and opinions. I may even literally quote some non-standard phrases that people around me (particularly my husband) love to use. But I have never tried to describe a real, familiar, individual in a novel. With one exception.

This exception is not a human being, however. It is a bird. Specifically, a crow.

One of my first fantasy novels is about a woman who has a special talent of speaking to animals. Not speaking in the most literal sense of the word; rather, she understands them, takes care of them, teaches them – and they love her and cooperate with her…

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Author Promotion, Authors, Books, Reading

Sally’s Cafe & Bookstore Christmas Update – Agnes Mae Graham, Lucinda E. Clarke and Christoph Fischer

November 25, 2016 Tina Frisco 5 Comments

Books featured today in Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore are Unhappily Ever After by Lucinda E. Clarke, The Body in the Snow by Christoph Fischer, and My Vibrating Vertebrae by Agnes Mae Graham ~ published posthumously by her two children, Lorna and Christopher Graham. Sally’s bookstore is a cornucopia of excellent reading material and a great place to begin one’s holiday shopping. All we need now is the virtual café to round out our reading pleasure with a frothy latté or cappuccino, garnished this holiday season with a minty candy cane 😊

Author Resources, Editing, Indie Publishing, Reading, Writing

EDITING 101: 13 – Self-Editing Part 1…

November 25, 2016 Tina Frisco 7 Comments

In Part 13 of her Editing 101 series on The Story Reading Ape, Susan Uttendorfsky presents Part 1 of self-editing. She discusses searching for weak verbs and overused words, and how to vary sentence constructions. As I’m finalizing my manuscript and preparing to publish my next novel, this series has been extremely helpful. I’m sure you’ll find it helpful as well …

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Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.

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Self Editing Part 1

Some of the things we’ve discussed previously are good to be on the watch for and remove, but there are other, specific tasks that can be done when a manuscript’s completed to help polish it. Since there are many of these odd jobs, this specific post will continue over time.

Editing your own work involves hard labor. Other authors have mentioned they make as many as ten to fifteen passes in editing, revising, and reworking, focusing on one or two aspects of self-editing each time. Those authors are to be commended, since writing a book is only one third of the work. Editing is the second third, and publishing and marketing take up the final third. You’re…

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The Pond Monster

November 21, 2016 Tina Frisco 8 Comments

Kate McClelland with a story that might leave you wanting to exact revenge on that childhood bully. I, too, was clumsy as a child. Wait… Who am I kidding? I still trip over match sticks. Even walked into a door jam and literally saw stars ~ in technicolor ~ like the ones you see in cartoons. Hop over to Kate’s blog and enjoy ~ or commiserate ~ or perhaps both 😊

Kate McClelland

Pond Monster

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Author Promotion, Authors, Books, Companion Animals, Historical Fiction

#Westerns, buffalo chips, and dogs. #Bookreview YELLOW HAIR #SundayBlogShare @huckfinn76

November 20, 2016 Tina Frisco Leave a comment

Now here’s a corker! Barb Taub interviewed author Andrew Joyce on her blog today, along with — you guessed it — Andrew’s lifeline, author Danny the Dog. It’s about time Danny got the recognition he deserves. Well done, Danny! You, too, Andrew 🙂

Barb Taub

Interview with Andrew Joyce. And Danny the Dog.

Today, we’re sitting down with the authors Andrew Joyce and Danny the Dog for a joint interview. Andrew is the author of Yellow Hair and Danny writes a monthly column to keep his legions of fans informed as to his latest adventures. So, without further ado, let’s get started.

Thank you for agreeing to do this interview.

AJ: It’s a pleasure to be here.

DtD: Me too . . . I guess.

Tell me a little about yourselves and your backgrounds?

AJ: I’m a writer, which surprises me greatly. For the first three years of my writing career, I never referred to myself as a writer. It was only when the royalties started coming in and I could quit my day job that I dared think of myself as such.

danny Danny the Dog.

DtD: I’m a dog.

What…

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Inspiration

What’s Your Story? – Guest Post…

November 20, 2016 Tina Frisco 10 Comments

I am fortunate to be a guest on The Story Reading Ape‘s blog today. Chris is a generous and indefatigable supporter of authors who is much loved by the blogging community. Thanks so much, Chris! ❤

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Image is courtesy of Lucie Stastkova

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Our life is the story we tell ourselves. As we think, so our life unfolds. Energy follows thought.

Consider the laws of physics. Physics is the science of matter and motion. One of its foremost premises is that all matter converts to energy. Therefore, that which is not matter is energy. But what is energy? We can’t see it, yet we know it’s there. This is displayed when we flip a switch and the light goes on; when we accidently get shocked by an electrical current; when we sense someone is watching or following us; when we feel drawn to a stranger without explanation.

We react to this energy physically when we put our body – matter — in motion. We react to it mentally when we develop an opinion – thoughts — of a situation. And we react to it…

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EDITING 101: 12 – Directions and Impossibilities…

November 18, 2016 Tina Frisco 5 Comments

In Part 12 of her Editing 101 series, Susan Uttendorfsky covers directional redundancies and impossible actions. Do we stand up or do we stand? Do we throw our eyes across the room or do we throw someone a scathing glance? Hop over to The Story Reading Ape to read this enlightening post . . .

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Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.

Courtesy of Adirondack Editing

Directions and Impossibilities

Welcome to today’s article! I hope you’re keeping busy and life is not getting in the way of your writing schedule too much.

We’re going to talk about two short items today. The first is directional redundancies. It’s a big term, isn’t it? It was covered briefly in EDITING 101: 01, Redundancies, but I wanted to go a little further with it. In the previous article, one of the examples was “Her tears ran down her cheeks,” and I pointed out that tears can only run in one direction, can’t they? When was the last time you ever saw somebody’s tears run up their cheeks? (Perhaps if they were hanging upside down on a jungle gym, but…

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Activism, Animals

Vital conservation – Seal Rescue Ireland in Courtown -A chance to make a difference!

November 18, 2016 Tina Frisco 9 Comments

I became actively involved with animal welfare 25 years ago and started 2 of my own organizations. I say “actively” because I remember beating up the neighbor kids if they so much as looked at an animal the wrong way. We humans are meant to be stewards of our planet Earth, not spoilers and warmongers. In her post on the Seal Rescue Ireland centre, Sally Cronin educates us about harbour seals, what to do should we find a pup that appears to be abandoned, ways to educate our children, and much more. Complete with engaging photographs, this beautiful post is not to be missed . . .

Photography

Nature’s Soul~

November 18, 2016 Tina Frisco 7 Comments

Cindy Knoke brings us her exquisite photographs of Arches National Park ~ gorgeous red rock country to delight the eye and embellish the soul . . .

Cindy Knoke

Some humans relax in natural places,

and are less content in human spaces.

While other’s thrive in the social whirl,

a nature’s soul will find depth of meaning,

far from the thrum of a human being.

Nature’s souls go to wild spaces,

for it is here they find their sacred places.

Cheers to you from a nature’s soul~