Gloria Oren
Writer, Book Reviewer, Editor, Proofreader.
Writers and Authors – Jo Linsdell
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Mary Jo Nickum
Mom’s Story: a Child Learns About MS
Chalet Publishers, 2009, 74 pages, $9.95
ISBN: 978-098408365-7
Fiction
“I found Mom sitting on the floor and I rushed
to her as she started to get up.”
Amy, the youngest child of three children was
worried, scared, and puzzled about what was
happening to her mother. First she had fallen,
then she dropped a plate [...]
Penny C. Sansevieri
Red Hot Internet Publicity: an insider’s guide to marketing
your book on the Internet
Cosimo Books, 2009, 275 pages, $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-60520-724-7
(Nonfiction, publicity, marketing)
“Nowadays, it’s no longer a matter of whether you can
get published, it’s a matter of getting you book noticed.”
Sansevieri covers everything an author needs to plan a
successful publicity campaign. Red Hot Internet Publicity
covers [...]
Thank You Lea Schizas @ Yahoo! Video
From the 5th annual Readers and Authors Get Together 2009: Agents and Editors share their thoughts on pitching. Enjoy.
Sandy Brewer
Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey
Peach Tree House, 2007, 224 pages, $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-9796554-4-9
(Self-help, Memoir, Inspirational)
“Every moment is a choice, and every choice reverberates . . .
Every moment presents an opportunity to ‘pay it forward’.”
Abuse is not a chosen lifestyle for the child placed there by
the abuser. Sandy Brewer relates the trauma of rejection and
abuse [...]
Have you ever wondered what lies behind a word, not
just the meaning found in a dictionary, but its history
or story of how it came to be? That’s where etymology
comes in.
Check out the Etymology Dictionary.
For example, take the word “gadget”, this is what it says:
“1886, gadjet (but said to date back to 1850s), sailors’
slang word for [...]
My good friend Cheryl Malandrinos asked me to help spread
the word about this new book and organization. Since I was
ill for about a month with pneumonia and am in the last
minute stage of arranging my daughter’s wedding I offered to
post something on my blog in lieu of an interview.
Jerry Pollock, President of the organization, wrote [...]
Modern science provided us with a universal method of studying
and mastering any subject. This method, highly successful in
music, wasn’t applied to language because there was a fixed
method of language study in existence long before modern
science appeared. The problem with that old system — it was
invented to apply to languages with mechanical systems of
endings, by which [...]
Well today I turn 53 and my daughter graduates from University on Saturday.
Am I feeling old? You bet. Where have all those years gone?
The last four just seemed to whip by in such haste.
Yet I can’t fool anyone, not even myself, the age itself isn’t old, it’s the body’s feeling and what it has had [...]
Language is no more than a medium. If it is perfectly clear and pure, we don’t notice it any more than we notice pure air when the sun is shining in a clear sky, or the taste of pure cool water when we drink a glass on a hot day. Unless the sun is shining, [...]
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