March 28, 2011

I just finished reading “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold. It made me cry. It made me feel I’d shared in a life. It made me want to burn my own manuscripts. I’m ten years late in reading this masterpiece and I’m jealous. If I’d read it sooner maybe I could have done a better job in telling my own stories. I don’t wish to diminish Ms. Sebold or her amazing talent; I only wish I could be half as good. Like a lot of things in my life, I’ve spent a vast amount of ...

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Over the last few days I've been looking into creating a book trailer in order to attract attention to my work. I've been working with Brad Torreana at Russell Video Services in Ann Arbor, MI and I have to tell you he makes it sound so easy. I have no idea if it's going to work or not, I don't even know if I can afford it yet but if it's at all feasable I'm going to give it a try. I'm not going to give up or leave one stone unturned. I think I have a good if not great couple of  books complet...
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As a new author, I have found it very difficult to attract the attention of either an agent or a publisher. To date I have accumulated about 285 rejection letters. I'm not completely discouraged since Stephen King recieved over 300 before "Carrie" was accepted. After all, it only takes one. I even thought of self publishing. After all that southern lawyer, what's his name? oh yes, John Grishom was originally self published. I heard he drove all over the south on weekends with a trunk full of ...
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Hello World! This is my very first ever BLOG post and i'm almost terrified. I've never done this before so please bare with me during this learning process.
Thanks for your patience.
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