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Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Steps to Becoming a World Famous Writer Okay, so the title is just a come-on. If there were steps, I would have gone down that path many years ago, but the journey I took hasn’t made me a world famous writer . . . just a published one. So how did I get there? What helped me become addicted to the art of wordsmithing?             Step One: Read, read, read. You can’t be a good writer or even a mediocre one without a reading background. For me, that started with DC Comics. Yes, I’ll admit it, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash,…

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Guest Blog by Melissa Harker-Ridenour.

Guest Blog by Melissa Harker-Ridenour.

How to Accept Publisher Rejections Publisher rejection slips are a thorn in the side of all writers, both experienced and inexperienced. They can seem to suggest to us that we just don’t measure up and that our work is not worthy. However, publisher rejection comes with the territory. All writers must be able to cope with the dreaded rejection slip and still be motivated to keep writing. Step 1: Don’t take publisher rejections personally. Writers by their very nature are sensitive people. It’s that sensitivity that makes you adept at your craft. However, that very same sensitivity that makes you…

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Guest Blog by Jane Finch.

Guest Blog by Jane Finch.

A Few Facts About Ravens. Ravens are known to be highly intelligent – up there with the chimpanzees. They roam in adolescent ‘gangs’, are playful and mischievous, and can imitate human speech on a par with parrots. With a shiny, ebony body and a piercing stare they have often been the source of myths and legends. Ravens mate for life and are known to show empathy for one another. Strangely, a flock of ravens is called an ‘unkindness’. After many hours watching ravens interact with other animals and birds, author Jane Finch decided to write an adventure featuring these enigmatic…

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Guest Blog by Lisa Sniderman.

Guest Blog by Lisa Sniderman.

An Interview shared by Lisa So, tell me a little about yourself. Writer? Editor? Life etc I’m Lisa Sniderman, aka Aoede, an award-winning, quirky, folk-pop artist, playwright, teaching artist, author, filmmaker from San Francisco, and have been battling a rare chronic illness for nearly 12 years while obsessively creating to heal. I create and record unique, original full-length fantasy musicals on audiobooks that I adapt to musical theater stage plays. I’ve been honored with more than 85 awards for my songwriting, audiobooks, films, stage plays and books since 2012 all while suffering from a rare autoimmune disease: dermatomyositis, a progressive…

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Guest Blog by Jess Flaherty

Guest Blog by Jess Flaherty

Among the Books. Many demons hoard things. Gold, jewels, victims. But they’re not an escape from Hell; they’re a symptom of it. Ben hoarded books. Great toppling stacks of them. When he couldn’t find an excuse to escape to Earth, he’d go to his library and find the only reliable means of escape from torment a human soul has ever known. Ben frequently dreams of Hell. Often he wakes with a damp, salty pillow. Other times he thrashes himself out of bed. More often than he can easily brush aside to the woman he shares a bed with, he’s pulled…

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Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Rescue Me I don’t believe that anyone has ever wished for a duller life. Most of us hope that life will dazzle us or at least exceed our expectations, not slow to a crawl in a mundane kind of ennui. Then there’s me. As a kid growing up in rural neighborhoods, our family adopted a variety of pets including dogs, cats, birds, and the occasional lizard. Perhaps our most exotic animal was Baron, our Great Dane, who I would ride like a small horse when I was three. And the day our resident cat had kittens in our garage, we…

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