Gloria Oren
Writer, Book Reviewer, Editor, Proofreader.
Writers and Authors – Jo Linsdell
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Norma Jean’s Sun Kris Courtney Charleston, SC Harvard Girl Word Services First edition 2009 287 pages $19.95 ISBN: 05780205099 or 978-0578020594
“It took every ounce of medical training and experience for the doctor to summon the courage [to tell the parents] the circumstances demanded.”
Norma had what anyone could call a normal birthing, but it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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