Becoming A Best-Selling Author: Writing, Publishing, and Promoting Your Book to Better Market Your Business. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Thursday, February 27th 6:00-9:00PM La Quinta Inn & Suites Las Vegas Airport North/Convention Center, 3970 S Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89169 International Best Selling Author Patrick Snow will be conducting a free seminar in person about Becoming A Best-Selling Author: Writing, Publishing,…
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Q&A Parenthesis?
(Lorem Ipsum) Parentheses are confusing. Some writers use them in their sentence and it appears to mean nothing. Is there any simple rule that I should be aware of?
The Tegan Cave
The Tegen Cave After running from her boyfriend’s powerful organized crime family, Sara Jones starts a new life in a new town. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package with a spider concealed inside, she worries that the family has found her. Life takes an even more bizarre turn when…
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Quote of the day.
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
Q & A Where does the punctuation go…
Q&A Here is another very important question from Marshal Prescott. Let’s all give him our answers as we see it. Where does the punctuation go, before or after the quotation marks? Why is it done that way?
The 2014 eLit Book Awards
Calling all eBook Publishers – Enter Today! Last Chance to Register Your eBook! The fourth annual eLit Awards are a global awards program committed to illuminating and honoring the very best of English language digital publishing entertainment. The 2014 eLit Awards are an industry wide, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the electronic publishing industry. The contest is…
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San Diego Conference Update
Advance submission deadline extended, schedule up… Quick update on next month’s San Diego conference, Presidents’ Day Weekend, Feb. 14-17. 1. Advance Submission Deadline Extended 2. Working Schedule Posted 3. “BFF” and NovelCram Remain Open 4. Another Book Sold 5. Pick the Right Writer’s Conference ———- 1) Advance Submission Deadline Extended ———- All but a couple of advance submission readers are…
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Jan 28 Meeting
Last night was a great night. I really did learn a few things. Here are the highlights: We had one guest. Luisjavier “Wuicho.” Tina brought in brochures for us to take with us and pass out. We will. Judy Logan is updating the Member’s List. Please email her all your information, name, phone, email, genre, etc. jeslogan1@hotmail.com Amanda will answer any…
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The Back of a Business Card
The back of the card is also as important as the front of the card. This is where you can get creative. If you choose you can have the front of the card with only your name and title, and the back of the card with all of your information. Or The front of your card with all your pertinent…
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Lunch Ticket
Hello, Henderson Writers Group Members. I attended your wonderful conference in 2012. I am currently on staff at Lunch Ticket, the literary magazine of the MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. If you have information on contests and calls for submissions in your member newsletter, could you please include the following among your announcements? Lunch Ticket, a literary magazine published by…
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Why Douglas Devy writes science fiction or fantasy as a genre?
Why write science fiction or fantasy as a genre? Because the “sky’s not the limit.” If the story opens on page one with a scene on the planet Zenon, where the natives are in a particular quandary about the fate of time travel, or invisibility, or the latest technology based on Quantum Mechanics, or anti-gravity, or hyperspace, or anything else…
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Writers' Tricks of the Trade eZine
Here it is the beginning of 2014 already with a new issue of Writers’ Tricks of the Trade eZine packed with helpful articles about things to do in 2014 to further your career, conference listings, excerpt from a book, industry news and much, much more. For you writers out there, remember that this is a writer-driven eZine and submissions are always open. The guidelines…
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