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            You can purchase all four of my novels for your spring reading for just $4.00 in the Ebook format…that’s just $1.00 a Novel!

            You can buy just one or all four for the price of $1.00 for each book.

            My four published novels are on sale from April 17, 2015 to May 17, 2015 for half price.…

So I'm in the transporter to pick up this week's featured author. He enters and suddenly the entire machine goes haywire. When we step out, we're on a strange island with a table set up for two, strange colored drinks waiting and the entire world has changed. I smack the side of the console, the dials spin, and then report that we're sitting…

   I learned a few things about being a successful author after writing five novels, including a gold medal winner. Nine years of coaching hopeful writers in Evening at Emory University’s Creative writing studio convinced me that budding scribes often make unnecessary mistakes—the same mistakes.

     So I thought, “why not flatten the writing curve for writers who have…

Remember when the day ended with a bedtime story?

I remember my mother reading a picture book I already knew by heart. When he was home from sea duty, my father would spin stories of his childhood in the South. Sometimes he'd recite scenes from “Gone With the Wind,” changing his voice to fit each character. Okay, that may have been a little over the top. Does an eight-year-old really need to go to sleep with Scarlett's “As God is my witness”…

Life is not a box of chocolate, usually in a box of chocolate we are expecting a variety of taste, flavors and sweetness.

I don't usually receive what I expect. So these days I am expecting everything from anyone at any time..I added my e-books and covers to my introductory blog..for more substance and readers.

I have been online for years, new at self-publishing, doing everything myself and hoping someone (a traditional publisher will at least glance my way). My writing is…

Hello Everyone:

I am Janet A. Wilson Marson, I am an author and mother of three wonderful children. (A divorcee).

I grew up and was educated in Jamaica and the United States of America, I am “Do It Yourself”  person with many hobbies, writing being one of them.

I  was raised by three great women with strong Christian values and a great father. I believe in myself and

God Almighty, creator of this Universe. Life is for living well and making oneself free,…

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I was lounging on a couch on the outside deck of the Starbucks in Tucker, Georgia enjoying a tall “Flat White” coffee drink. It was creamy and good…very good! The sun was hot, and yet a crisp cool breeze washed over the deck and kept me alert as I was reading J.D. Sallinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. The traffic on Highway 29 didn’t distract me as I was involved in…

In the middle of Philly Style and Phlly Profile, the action continues as a character named Martha is killed. She knows too much! After Reading the chapter, please click the link and listen to Chapter 23 Podcast..

Chapter Twenty-Three



Meanwhile, Martha walked up 16th Street, pulling the lottery tickets out of her pocket. She concentrated on her numbers. She…

So, this morning I pick up this week's featured author and since she shrugged her shoulders on an interview site, i decided  to hit an all night coffee bar in Des Moines. Of course, I don't drink coffee, but they have a wonderful selection of teas. We're ensconced in a back room so the jazz quartet out front doesn't disturb us.

Onto the interview...

1. Who are…

I lived in San Francisco, CA for 22 years but moved 05 07 2014. I live another place now and I have a new dog named Max. The dog is 2 years old mixed German shepherd. I am the writer of the book published 08 10 titled: The Pirate Captain by I, author: Ken Moorehead. The book sells www.amazon.com,…

Why did I pick Knoxville, Tennessee, as the setting for my debut novel, Curse Me Not? Easy. The town is big enough to have everything from an opera company to a paint ball club, yet it’s small enough for neighbors know neighbors and people to actually go downtown to see a movie or have a martini. It was perfect for my main character, an Appalachian unsophisticate who's recently gained the ability to see auras and the more lucrative ability to clean revenge…

     Novels are driven by incredible scene construction!

     How a writer handles scenes will make a difference between a manuscript that sells, and one that ends up in the slush pile or the author receiving a rejection letter via email or in the mail.

     A scene is a unit of drama in a novel.

     The concept of a scene in fiction comes from theater,…

What kind of writer are you…your writing style?

If you are sensitive to critics’ comments, the writing “Rules Police”, experts discussing this issue, with such aplomb that they intimidate, then you must turn a deaf ear to this shrill commentary that says: You must write in a certain style in order to be considered a worthy author.

Stop!

Your…

Hi everyone, just like to say I look forward to corresponding with you all. I am a contemporary fiction writer who also write in other genres. I also write about relationships in my blog. Therefore I  would like to invite you to check out by blog janiede.blogspot.com

I wind up the three part series of essays written by two of my students. This week, they discuss community inner strength.

Noelle

How can inner strength be used to better our community?

Let's start with this question: what is inner strength? My personal definition for the phrase 'inner strength' is: “the power to resist…

If you know the meaning of love

you are not likely to have many questions,

in the understanding of what love is,

you will never be worried and

if you have heard what love is all about

You would not fall in love

Because when falling in love

you are building a house

you will live in tomorrow.

When you…

Last week, I introduced Noelle and Elijah, two of my taekwondo students, who wrote essays in February on how to use inner strength at home, in school, and in the community. This week, I present their essays on school inner strength.

Noelle

How can inner strength be used to make school a successful endeavor?

Let's start with this…

Sometimes life sucks so bad your characters have to live through it. Life is conflict.

To cyber-socialize or not to cyber-socialize? That is the question.

My New Year's resolution for '09 was to finally, seriously and extensively take a look at all the social sites I kept hearing about. My Space. Face Book. Crime Space. Twitter. Blogs. No more letting the info slide by, no more shaking my head and saying, “Who's got time for all this bulls__t?” I would do an investigation, just like my sleuth Christy Bristol. I would finally find…