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  • Quick comments concerning questions #3 and #4. Number 3 -...Writers. All writers need to have a mentor, a role model and an advocate. The three a...d others times we learn. Often when in the teaching mode, we learn. When in the learni...
  • Hi Jan - What a terrific idea!!  Thanks for sharing.  Must rush off to work, but will definitely check it out later.  I'll be checking into Doreen's as well.  Set my b...
  • Susan, what you say is somewhat true, but book tours from city to city work best for well-known authors who have already developed a large and loyal fan base. The go...
  • Sunny Frazier commented on her article DAVID VS GOLIATH
    Small towns don't so much hide secrets as absorb them. We know what we know, we openly talk about the players and who is connected to who. Fascinating web. If this guy...
  • My daughter also wrote her own newspaper, and a book about tornadoes when she was eight, so cute. Now nearly sixteen, she writes great song lyrics and poetry. I can't...
  • Great article never thought about the "marriage" angle but have to say in this busy fast paced world, I check for updates, announcements and above all news. Since we h...
  • The question is what is a "bad" book? I thought The Da Vinci Code for instance was a terrible book nor did I like Water for Elephants. I didn't like these popular book...
  • Your post Mother, Stranger, struck such a chord with me. I was a writer from the age of eight when i won a PTA writing contest for a short story that was chosen to be...
  • Yesterday I finished the first draft of a travel-adventure memoir I've been working on for eight years. It's the story of a two-year sailing trip I made with my husban...
  • Miranda, thanks for the info on the National writer's union. I used to belong to the Newspaper Guild but I haven't written for papers in a while. I was looking for something like that. Thanks so much!