It’s been a wild April. Obviously, I have fallen short of posting publishing tips every day for National Poetry Month. But, I am giving myself some grace, knowing that I have done something worthwhile every day this month. Tip #11: Make Every Day Count April 1-9: Visiting our family in New York State April 7th:…
Happy Poetry Month, Day #2. For Poetry Month this year, I am writing a tip a day on my experience with being an Indie Author and Publisher. I received the second proof copy of my upcoming book release: Picture Perfect Poetry, An Anthology of Ekphrastic Nature Poetry for Students. It looks great and should be…
Today is June 1st! Time seems to be flying! Last month, I ran a contest to get some of the readers who bought my poetry chapbook, Life’s Inspiration and Reflection in a Few Words (2022), to write an Amazon review for the book. If you don’t know, book reviews greatly enhance the saleability of a…
Today is Poetry Friday! Our host is Laura Purdie Salas and she has tons of good news on her blog today. Make sure you check it out! You can also connect to more poets and their poetry at the end of her post! Thanks for hosting Laura! I’m preparing a presentation on bats for Environmental…
Happy Poetry Friday to all participants in this welcoming and gracious community of poets! Today, I’ll review the other poetry book I was gifted from Sarah Grace Tuttle and also, one I received in the mail, entitled Feel The Beat by Marilyn Singer. I’m afraid I do not remember which blog or Twitter feed I…
Reflections are important. They provide a glimpse of who we really are, not who we think we are, or what others think of us, nor what we are to become. It is a moment, those seconds of reflection, when you look and see a sliver of reality – whether that be in a mirror or…
Books have taken a large space in my life lately. Since determined we were going to sell our house this year, we had to downsize. Hundreds of books got given away. Some for little free libraries, but more to teachers I know, and the majority to the community center in the town we left. We’ve…
It’s August 1st! How the heck did that happen? It’s been a busy six months! In February we decided to put our home of 16 years up for sale but wait until spring to do it. In the meantime, we started cleaning out. When we met with realtors, we decided on listing the first week…
I’ve been trying to keep up on my reading since we moved. I’m on my third novel for the month and enjoy sitting on the deck facing the lake reading a few pages during the day, as well as at night before bed. The first two books I read were borrowed from the local library….
I like to collect authors. These are people who write books with characters who stay with me, a storyline that engrosses me or offers such insight into history that I learn from the facts woven into the story. For me, these authors are people like E.B.White, Madeline d”Engle, Roald Dahl, and Mary Doria Russell, as…