Recently, Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, an international competition seeking fresh new writing voices. CreateSpace will once again host the submission platform for the contest. Here is the information the competition emailed me as a past participant. Important details about the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award: What are the prizes? […]
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Mourning Tears
Today guest blogger Dorothy Skarles, shares her thoughts on bereavement. Welcome Dorothy! Mourning Tears Going through a very old quotation book in prose and poetry from the greatest writers, ancient and modern, I spotted this verse written by Richard Monckton Milnes to Myrzha. “He who for love hath undergoneThe worst that can befall,Is happier thousandfoldThan on […]
How to Set Up Google Alerts – Simple and Free
Would you like to get regular updates, via email, about something that interests you whenever it appears in the top 20 web or top 10 news results? Would you like to get news about you and your blog? If so, Google Alerts is for you. It’s simple and it’s free. It only takes about six seconds to set up an […]
Stylish Blogger Award
Why thank you Cathy Kennedy for presenting me with the Stylish Blogger Award! What better way to start off the new year than with such a compliment from a fellow blogger/writer I admire. Here’s what Cathy said about my blog: Enter the Between: A Writer’s Journey is by Margaret Duarte, a fellow author. We’ve came together through […]
Big Ambitions
I have big ambitions for the coming year. I need fresh ideas for my blog–posts that both share my journey as a writer and also inform. I’ve been blogging for a while. I should be a pro by now. Ha. Where to begin? Here comes the “big ambitions” part. To keep the creative juices flowing, I plan […]
Resolutions and Daily Routine
Want your resolutions to become more than broken promises to yourself? I sure do. I want to ACTUALLY write more, with less constraint. I want to ACTUALLY kick a few bad habits, exercise more, and eat more nutritional foods. So what’s the secret to keeping your resolutions, if there is one? Secrets to keeping resolutions Routine. […]
