I’m delighted to welcome Patricia Stoltey as today’s guest blogger. Pat and I first met in 2009 on Dani Greer’s Blog-a-Day web site, and we reconnected recently on Facebook. Her story is a great illustration of my favorite maxim from the I Ching: Perseverance furthers. Four Things I’ve Learned About Writing Along the Way by… [Read More]
Guest blogger J. H. Bogran on fear of public speaking
I’m delighted to welcome J. H. Bográn as the first guest blogger on my Creative Crone website. Born and raised in Honduras, he writes thrillers in both English and Spanish. Here he discusses how becoming a published novelist helped him overcome his fear of public speaking. How my writing helped me learn to speak in… [Read More]
Alison Armstrong and the Independent Creators Alliance FB group
Alison Armstrong is a gifted author I met through online fan groups for Michael Easton, the General Hospital actor who inspired my vampire soap opera thriller Hope Dawns Eternal. Alison and I met in person at a GH fan event in New Jersey in 2014. This morning she’ll be meeting Michael and his GH buddy… [Read More]
Emily Hanlon’s Ten New Year’s Resolutions for the Fiction Writer
Emily Hanlon posted these New Year’s resolutions for fiction writers, and she’s given me permission to reprint them here. I first encountered Emily through the International Women’s Writing Guild years ago, when they were holding their annual summer conferences at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. I gained a lot from her five-day workshop,… [Read More]
Jean Henry Mead’s blog becomes book
Today I’m delighted to welcome Jean Henry Mead, whose Mysterious People blog has given birth to a brand-new book with Poisoned Pen Press. *The Blog That Became a Book* *By Jean Henry Mead* When I first began interviewing mystery novelists for my blog site, Mysterious People, I had no idea they would wind… [Read More]
Marketing Tips from Larry Thacker
Are there any authors out there who honestly love marketing their books? We all know it’s an absolute necessity, but if you’re anything like me, you find excuses not to do it nearly as much as you should. Larry Thacker, author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia, seems genuinely to enjoy it, and… [Read More]