if i call her the myrrh bearer,

will you know which garden?

if i talk of the gardener,

will you know the theory?

did you study the book,

like them, or

have you a degree?

i have nothing, yet

was treated so..

i keep them in boxes…..

sbm.

Love and Vitamins

 …

Most of us fear sharks, and for very good reason. But they have one weakness. What can we learn from them? Click here to find out:

http://thewritermomblog.com/writing/of-sharks-and-writers/

No one likes a sob story, but here's mine. I'll keep it short.

After dealing with months of scary stressful health issues, having my lap top stolen, and loosing all my log in and passwords, I'm slowly starting to get my life back together. I'm making my way back into social media networking and am back to actively writing. Now I'm planning to get back into the activities of this community.

I'm taking it one day at a time.

In June 2009 I started a business as a freelance editor while also working at a few other part time jobs. The experience has kept me in awe. My sole practitioner's license is up in November 2014 and most likely, I will renew it and keep working with writers and their manuscripts.

Right now, due to a part time job (salaried) that I'm enjoying, I am looking at the way I do business and I am revising the way I enter into contracts. It is my dream to change the way the concept of…

    1.  I already read a lot of print media. 

    2.  I already find innumerable ways to try to avoid writing.

    3.  I often don't have much to say, or add, to the general conversation about the process and trials and

tribs of the writing life. 

    4.  I'm a fan of Carl Hiasson, who says he doesn't tweet or blog or Facebook because he'd rather be writing. 

True, he's a Big Name so he doesn't have to.  But how did he get to be a Name?  Not be…

Fellow She Writes Members -- I invite you to enter Shelf Unbound magazine's second annual writing competition. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Margaret Brown, publisher, margaret@shelfmediagroup.com, 214.704.4182

SHELF UNBOUND MAGAZINE WRITING COMPETITION FOR BEST INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK

Blog Publishing Nightmare

When I finished my novel, Juliana’s Truth I was elated and ready to submit; let the publishing begin.  I envisioned the film version after it became an international bestseller.  I’d finally be able to pay off my (and my daughter’s) college loans. The novel began as a thesis for my M.F.A.—but that was merely the first draft; the revisions took another two years.  I was no stranger to rejection as far as manuscripts go but my tenacity was…

I give consultations on book marketing, and one of the first things I tell my clients to do is put up a website, preferably in the form of yourname.com. If you have a common name, I suggest seeing if yournameauthor.com or yournamebooks.com is available. I prefer this to thenameofyourbook.com, because what if you end up writing another book?…

Psalm 39:4-5

Show me, O Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath.

I am so glad that I have no…

I've posted a pantoum, "Loose Threads of Memory":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/loose-threads-of-memory-poem.html

Do you wish to earn a passive income by writing and promoting the eBooks? If yes, then you need to possess efficient writing techniques and skills. Moreover, you can earn a considerable amount of money by marketing your eBooks by using the online platform. You can enhance your eBook writing skills by following some crucial aspects as below.

1. Finalize the Topic or…

When She Writes comes to my doorstep to celebrate and teach, I put on bells and whistles to be there. It’s a rare joy to be connected not just online, but live, in a room with colleagues, other She Writers, editors, and She Writes Press publisher Brooke Warner.

At an elegant Berkeley hotel, there were the…

he last thing, i saw

the plane fly over. busy day.

they only fly when fine,

we had some words on that

and laughed.

i pointed out the

unusual insect on his shirt,

smiled about those midges

stuck in skin so soft, which worked.

the horse watched, swayed

went down to roll.

i sewed the buttons back on.…

Melissa Studdard has an insightful conversation with prize-winning poet, translator, and essayist, Jane Hirshfield. We focusing on Hirshfield’s most recent collection, Come, Thief: Poems and discuss her other works as well.

Click here to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.

Fried Chicken and Latkes is Rain Pryor’s award winning solo show based on her life. It is an irreverent and poignant look at racism in the late 60’s - early 70’s. Rain completely wrote and created her Off Broadway show including adding some of her own original music and lyrics to the production. Rain was a Los Angeles Times “Critics Choice” and her singing voice and sense of timing were hailed as rare gifts. Fried Chicken…

Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply, so deeply it can drown a soul.

Growing up in her parents’ crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules’ imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields to dodge household chaos. Somewhere between routine discipline with horsewhips, gun-waving gambling debt collectors and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, tragedy strikes with the death of her younger brother.

David, Jules’…