A Facebook post from a friend of mine in Houston, Thelma Zirkelbach:
Hi, Facebook friends, I’m guest editing a book on widowhood with Silver Boomer Books, so this is a call for submissions. Either prose or poetry on some aspect of widowhood will do. Check out www.silverboomerbooks.com for more information.
Silver Boomer Books
www.silverboomerbooks.com
“We didn’t mean to [...]
Edie Melson Edie Melson will be a speaker at AnAuthor World’s 3rd annual writing conference, The Story Continues. She’s a freelance writer and editor with over 16 years experience in the publishing industry. Edie’s a prolific writer, publishing over 700 articles in 2010. She also has a popular writing blog (www.thewriteconversation.blogspot.com) and is [...]
The competition is tough. Don’t let these five weaknesses mark you as a newbie and set you up for a knee-jerk rejection from the editor!
Want to know what the five fatal flaws are? Then mark your calendar for Saturday, July 16th and come to our next AnAuthor World Community meeting. Vonda Skelton [...]
To Blog or Not To Blog — Edie Melson will tell you, hands down, you’d better be blogging!
On Saturday, April 30th, Edie will have an intensive Blogging workshop, lasting from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. She will teach you, not only how to set up a blog, but also how to use [...]
Edie Melson, InstructorInstructor: Edie Melson
Date: Saturday, February 26th
Time: 9 a.m. – 12 noon
Cost: $50 (10% discount for AAW Community members)
In this Saturday workshop, participants will learn how to write copy effectively and where to find clients.
Edie’s new book, Fighting Fear, Winning the War at Home, will be out later this year. [...]
This Saturday is our next AAW Community meeting, and our speaker will be Andrea Merrell. Andrea, who is a freelance writer as well as an editor, will be sharing tips on self-editing.
It’s always a good idea to have someone else with “fresh eyes” check over your work for mistakes; that’s one reason why critique [...]
Tim spoke at Bryson Middle School’s Career Day presenting the day to day adventures of a freelance author and illustrator. Firing up the competition!
The words we write are like a lump of clay.
There are days when we writers just sit and stare at the blank screen. The words aren’t coming. Our Muse has left us. Cleaning toilets even starts to look appealing. So it’s easy to “Not Write.” The only problem with “Not Writing” is that there are no words [...]