All Blog Posts Tagged 'authors' (47)

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This week I started choreographing for a big dance show in the studio where I teach ballet. What makes it even more fun for me than usual is that I have been given creative license, and if you knew me well enough you’d know that…

Calling all Kids….

Get your book published! Free!

DLite is offering all kids (elementary, middle or high-school grades) free eBook publishing. We will design a cover, layout your text for eBook publishing and…

 As a veteran teacher and Children's Reading Specialist, I have always rejoiced when novels are accompanied with teaching resources with lesson plans, ideas and follow up activities. If you are a children's author consider adding a supplementary package along with your novel as a great resource to teachers as this will make your novel so much more marketable. I am working on a resource package to accompany my latest upcoming YA novel , Mysteries…

The February story (#6) of the One series is available now. For the second month in a row, we are fortunate enough to hear from a best-selling author. That's not all - there's another exciting change to the series.

Consider this; you have just finished your first book, you are so proud of your achievements and luckily you have found a small publisher to publish your work. Your’e excited and this is understandable and soon your excitement breeds a new dream. You dream that you will buy a new house with the proceeds that you will make, or perhaps a new car. You believe that when your book comes out, you will be rolling in the money, no more financial concerns, and you can pay your medical bills that have…

Maybe you know I have a lot of great stories with Trestle Press? Maybe you know that Trestle Press has no end of talented authors? Did you know right now Trestle Press is doing a Buy One Get One Sale?





So here is an economical way to get started or get caught up:





Mark Miller's One - a spiritual anthology…

I live in Mt. Dora, FL. I work close to home. I shop close to home. On Facebook, I have "friends" all over the world. Turns out, one of those friends is an author that also lives in Florida. Leona Bodie is the Vice President of the Florida Writers Association and she shared a touching story with me recently. It is about two other authors from Florida and I wanted to share it with you.....

Your headline is the first, and perhaps only, impression you make on a prospective

reader. Without a compelling promise that turns a browser into a reader, the rest

of your words may as well not even exist. So, from a copywriting and content

marketing standpoint, writin, you’re

already dead in the water Great headlines writing is a critical skill.

Here are some interesting statistics.

On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headlin…

Put your writing skills to work. We are looking for writers of radiology related articles. Articles should be timely, relevant and compelling for practicing radiologic professionals. We are seeking CT technologists, MR imagers, nuclear medicine technologists, ultrasound technologists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists, radiologist assistants, and radiologic technologists to author articles.

Prospective authors should be able to demonstrate their expertise in the subject…

Book Fairs, Festivals & Events

Come Travel with Us!

 DLite Press will give your books the exposure it deserves. We take our authors books with us to book fairs and events nationwide. Book fairs provide an excellent opportunity to network and display your work. In addition to the exposure, authors are able to…

Giovanni Gelati. That's right, Trestle Press's main man is back and he says something to say. Oh, this is a big deal and I am thrilled to be a part of it!





Amish Knitting Circle now occupies the numbers 2,3,4,5 rankings in short story fiction in all of Amazon Kindle, not by category, but overall. 





Check it out HERE:…

When I was in college, I worked behind the front desk of a major hotel. Directly across the lobby was the hotel bar, a small, dark lounge with the bar counter on the opposite side and a stage at one end. George Thorogood, when he stayed at the hotel, would sit at the far end of the counter, next to the stage. 

Connie, the bartender, once told me that her job was to…

The basic principal for writing about complex subjects is to do the work necessary so that the reader can understand you easily. Of course, your first task is to make sure you understand your own ideas. As Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” With this in mind, here are three strategies to help you write clearly about complex…

Since my first article on publishing an e-book to Amazon’s Kindle, some things have changed with the Amazon DTP (Digital Text Platform). Instead of uploading a zip file with an HTML document and other digital files to be included, there is now the option to upload a Word document. This was good news to me because I had already been working with Word documents and uploading them to…

P&L Press is currently accepting submissions for publication through P&L Printing, a worker owned and operated IWW shop located in Denver, Colorado. We distribute radical literature, but are open to whatever you've been writing. We will read whatever you send, and probably give you some pertinent feedback. If we choose your work, your publication will be featured on our website and online store, as well as distributed throughout the Denver area. As well as retaining all rights to…