Did you get this month’s issue of Costco Connection in the mail (It really has some great articles)? If you did, check out “Reading for Life” in the For Your Health section. It confirms what I’ve believed for a long time: “Reading regularly can help you live longer and better.” Yes, reading regularly for 30 minutes a […]
Enter the Between
When Does Insanity Become a Blessing?
Insanity a Blessing? Books have the power to do so much more than to simply entertain. I believe it’s my job as a fiction writer to condense research of complex subjects into understandable language and then play them out in story, almost like creating a PowerPoint presentation to compliment a written narrative. My four-book series, […]
AUTHOR, MARGARET DUARTE, RESURRECTS A LOST GENRE
In December 2015, Margaret Duarte launched BETWEEN WILL AND SURRENDER; book one of her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series.
Building an Author Website Step Five: Administration Panel
This is the day you log into your WordPress.org Administration Panel. For those of you who’d prefer instead to stick with WordPress.com, we part ways here, and I leave you with the following message: WordPress.com is a hosted service, which means that you don’t have to deal with finding a web host or downloading and installing the […]
Something to Crow About – Website Header
Edger Allen Poe’s “Raven” symbolized darkness and death, with it’s repeated answer, “Nevermore,” but I bet Poe also selected the raven for his poem because birds of the crow family are the most intelligent of the bird kingdom. Even Alfred Hitchcock discovered while filming “The Birds” that crows remember faces and have minds of their own.
The Between
The Between: A scary place “The between” is a scary place most of us don’t enter willingly. Instead, we’re catapulted there by a life-changing event, which in fiction is called the “inciting incident.” Like the fictional hero, we enter “the between” kicking and screaming and confront obstacles and tests we aren’t prepared or equipped to handle. We face-plant over and over, […]
