Gloria Oren

Gloria Oren

Writer, Book Reviewer, Editor, Proofreader.

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Book Review–Mom’s Story: a Child Learns About MS by Mary Jo Nickum

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 [...]

Red Hot Internet Publicity: an insider’s guide to marketing

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 [...]

Muse Online Conference Attendee Appreciation of Lea Schizas

Thank You Lea Schizas @ Yahoo! Video

As we approach the Muse Online Conference 2009 I’d like to share this

From the 5th annual Readers and Authors Get Together 2009: Agents and Editors share their thoughts on pitching. Enjoy.

Repost: Book Review: Not Remembered, Never Forgotten by Robert Allan Hafetz

Robert Allan Hafetz Not Remembered, Never Forgotten: An Adoptees Search for His Birthfamily Gateway Press, Inc., 2005, 117 pages, $20.00 ISBN: 0-9770202-0-7 (Nonfiction, Memoir) “Searching involves the risk that the truth might be painful, and many adoptees refuse to search because what they might discover could be devastating.” There are many similarities between my adoption [...]

Repost: Book Review: Destruction of Innocence: A True Story of Child Abduction by Rosalie Hollingsworth

Rosalie Hollingsworth Destruction of Innocence: A True Story of Child Abduction iUniverse, 2009, 266 pages, $20.95 ISBN: 978–1–4401–2502–7 (pbk) (Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir)

“My mind kept centering on the race to find my missing daughter, Triana. I wondered if this search would ever end. I had first lost her when she was one-year-old, and it took me [...]

Repost: Book Review: Pursuit of Light by Sandy Brewer

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. [...]

Repost: Christina Katz talks about the writer’s platform

Good morning everyone

Today I have a treat for you. I have been reading Christina’s e-zines for a long time, and had the honor of meeting her face-to-face on May 5th when she held a workshop at our local library in Bellevue, WA. When the opportunity to host an interview with her came up, I [...]

Repost: Book Review – Micah’s Child by Lang Buchanan

Micah’s Child Lang Buchanan Dragonon Inc., Mason, OH, 2006 504 pages $17.95 ISBN: 0-9763398-5-4

“I walked to the back of the room to turn out the lights on that half of my portable classroom and saw a twice-folded, handwritten note. Usually, I would have just thrown it away but not this time. The unrecognized scribble [...]

Repost: The English Language and Spelling

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 [...]