Jo Anne Valentine Simson

Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Bella Mahaya Carter's article [Body, Mind & Spirit] The Only Reason To Do Anything Is for Love

April 2017

Terrific essay! At some level, most things I do are for love - of the natural world or of people in it, including friends, family, and self. But I've never thought of things that way before. It should give me much more joy to realize that what I do...

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Maria Murnane's article Feeling Discouraged? Read This!

December 2016

I can understand the problems of the the "not-up-to-speed-reader." I read a lot - maybe two or three hours a day, but because I'm a slow reader, I don't read that much - perhaps fifty pages a day. And I also have several books going at any one time,...

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Roxanne's article 'Failing' at NaNoWriMo Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to My Writing

November 2016

Brava! Persistence is a virtue. You have given me new hope for maybe finishing a novel (or three) lying around my office in fragments. One NaNoRiMo effort left me with several novel chapters but nothing coherent. Maybe I can stitch them together...

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Brooke Warner's article Why Literary Writers Aren’t Getting Traditional Publishing Deals

November 2016

Thank you for this. Self-publishing and assisted publishing seem to be the way to go. Oh, and yes, there's "Lab Girl," too. Check it...

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Cindy Eastman's article [THE WRITER'S LIFE] LEMONADE, ANYONE?

July 2016

Amen! Thanks for putting this all in perspective.

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Kristin Bustamante's article Get started building your author platform

June 2016

Amazing compilation of resources. I read through every one, and copied the URLs, onto a sheet with the title, "Links for building an author platform." This past week or so I've been trying to work on improving my "platform." This was so timely!!

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Janay Lampkin's article Talk Twitter to Me

June 2016

Thanks! Never knew about geotagging! And mentioning twitter followers is probably a good way to get their attention. Everything scrolls by so fast, and I only look at it once or twice a day.

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Lisa Lepki's article 11 Things You Need to Know When Writing a Memoir

May 2016

Good advice for digging in. It's not so easy writing about one's own life.

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Cindy Eastman's article [THE WRITER'S LIFE] Body of Work

April 2016

Terrific! Isn't it fun to relive your past life through past writing? I've been doing that lately, too, although not with floppy discs. Rather, I've been sorting through old typewritten manuscripts as well as some old tape-recordings. I, too, have...

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Jo Anne Valentine Simson commented on Irene Allison's article [SWP: Behind the Book] How Not to Promote Your Book!

March 2016

Great post! I, too, have always been reluctant to self-promote--on any topic. So people I've known for some time are often surprised to find out about things I've done/accomplished. I'm not really an introvert (although not a strong extrovert...

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