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Interview with David Bowles, author of The Westward Sagas
My guest today is David Bowles, a client and friend. He has just released the second book in his historical fiction trilogy, which I edited for him. Lillie: Thank you for visiting A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye today, David. Of course,...
Any Poets Interested in Helping Young Writers?
The EPIC New Voices writing competition for middle school and high school writers received a record number of entries, especially in the poetry categories. Consequently, we need more poetry judges. Every entry is scored by three judges, including at...
Young Writers: Hurry to Enter New Voices
The deadline for New Voices, EPIC’s writing competition for teen writers is October 20, 2009. Students can enter poetry, short stories, and essays for cash prizes for winners and feedback for every entrant. You want to enter your best work, whi...
Deadline Nears for New Voices
Middle school and high school students have less than a month to polish and submit their entries into the EPIC New Voices writing competition for teens. Students (public, private, and home schools) can enter poetry, short stories, and essays. There...
Brazos Writers Self-Editing Workshop
I’ll be presenting a workshop for Brazos Writers, a writers group in the Bryan-College Station, Texas area. The October 10 workshop—The Alchemy of Self-Editing: Turning First Draft Dreck into Final Draft Gold—will include hands-on pract...
New Voices: Contest for Young Writers Underway
The EPIC New Voices competition for young writers is well underway. Middle and high school students can win great prizes, but even entrants who don’t final win what may be the best prize of all: feedback from published writers, editors, teache...
Blog Book Tour Stop: Morgan Mandel
My guest today is Morgan Mandel. She is on a blog book tour for her latest novel Killer Career. Lillie: Thank you for visiting A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye today, Morgan. Tell us about Killer Career. Morgan: Changing jobs could be a ...
Interview with Morgan Mandel Wednesday
Morgan Mandel is on a blog book tour for her latest novel Killer Career. I’m excited to be hosting her on Wednesday, April 19. Here’s a little about her and her book. Be sure to come back Wednesday to learn more about Killer Career. Mor...
EPIC New Voices: Writing Contest for Teens
Many writers start writing early in life. When you read the bios of authors, you often learn that the writer has been writing “since she could hold a crayon” or “as long as I can remember.” EPIC, the Electronically Published I...
World eBook Fair
Everybody loves free, and you can download your selections from two million PDF e-books for free until August 4th. The World eBook Fair makes it easy to find and download free e-books. The event is sponsored by Project Gutenberg, World Public Librar...
Last Chance: My Special Days Dream or Destiny Promotion Ends Today
My Special Days Dream or Destiny Promotion ends today. Order a copy of Dream or Destiny by midnight tonight, and I will e-mail you an e-book of Fern’s Fancies, my unpublished contemporary romance novel. To order directly from me through PayPal,...
Interview: Pat & James Taylor
I’m delighted that my friends, Patricia Eytcheson Taylor and the Rev. Dr. James C. Taylor, are visiting here today. Pat contacted me about editing a book about her spiritual journey after being referred to me by two mutual friends, my client David ...
The Taylors Coming to Visit
On the Wings of the Wind: A Journey to Faith by Patricia Eytcheson Taylor and the Rev. James C. Taylor was released about a year and a half ago. I announced the release of the book, but I hadn’t started interviewing authors on my blog at that t...
Author Interview: Stacie Vander Pol
My guest today is Stacie Vander Pol, the author of Top Self Publishing Firms: How Writers Get Published, Sell More Books, and Rise to the Top: and Make Money Working from Home with the Best Print On Demand Self-Publishing Companies. That’s almost a...
Review: Top Self-Publishing Firms
In my Self-Publishing Primer, I differentiate between subsidy publishing and self-publishing. So when Stacie Vander Pol asked me to review her book Top Self Publishing Firms: How Writers Get Published, Sell More Books, and Rise to the Top: and Make M...
Miss Guided and Richard Turner
Miss Guided has been having fun responding to comments on her recent interview. She got so carried away in replying to one particular comment that she brought author Richard Turner, The Cheat along to share some stories. Before I knew what was happen...
A Visit with Miss Guided
Lillie: Some very interesting and talented guests have visited this blog, but never before have we entertained an … oh, I’ll let our guest tell you that. Welcome to A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye, Miss Guided. Miss Guided: Why, thank you, ...
Re-Deal: A Time Travel Thriller
As you know if you’ve read my blog for some time, I am always as excited when a client publishes a new book as I am about my own books. Sometimes I describe my work with authors as being that of a midwife, helping to birth a bouncing baby book....
Small Press Month
In addition to this week being Read an E-Book Week, the entire month of March is Small Press Month. Although e-books don’t necessarily come from small presses, many do. In the early days of e-publishing, the large, traditional publishers didn&...
Books We Love Readers Scavenger Hunt
To celebrate the grand opening of the new Books We Love Reader’s Group, BWL_Readers@yahoogroups.com, participating authors invite you to get acquainted with us by joining in a fun scavenger hunt. Sign up for the group at Yahoo groups and join ...
Author Interview: James Doughty
Today James Doughty is visiting A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye. He has also offered to give away a copy of his book to a commenter so be sure to leave a comment to be entered in the drawing. As mentioned in my last post, I worked with James on...
James Doughty Coming to Visit
This Saturday, author James Doughty, also known as TV reporter James Muñoz, is visiting A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye. James and I will be chatting about his book, Some Monument to Last: Memoir of TV Journalist James Muñoz with Fami...
New Voices Deadline Nears
The deadline for EPIC New Voices, writing contest for junior high and high school students is this coming Friday, January 16. This is a wonderful opportunity for young writers to win great prizes and have their work published. Perhaps more importantl...
Blog Book Tour: Part 1—What It Is
I recently took two blog book tours for my romantic suspense novel Dream or Destiny. The first tour lasted three weeks and included seventeen stops; the second tour lasted less than a week and included four stops. After the first tour, I wrote a wr...
Some Monument to Last Available
I’ve mentioned before that I am as excited as the author when one of my clients publishes a book. James Doughty and I have been working together on Some Monument to Last for more than two and a half years, and James had been gathering the mater...
Calling Middle School and High School Writers
EPIC’s annual New Voices contest is open for submissions until January 10, 2009. Middle and high school students in any school (public, private, or home) in the world are eliglble to enter as long as their entry is in English. Categories for Mi...
Visit from a Novel Character
On Thursday, December 11, we’re having an unusual guest here. I invited author Jean Henry Mead to visit to promote her new senior sleuth mystery A Village Shattered. Jean asked if she could send one of her characters in her stead, and it didn&...
Interview: Author Janet Kaderli
[1]I’m delighted that my friend Janet Kaderli is visiting here today. Janet and I met at a writers conference more than ten years ago. We got to know each other, first through the local romance writers’ group, then later through an e-mail group o...
Review: Santa’s Angels by Janet Kaderli
[1]Title: Santa's Angels Author: Janet Kaderli Publisher: Avalon Copyright: 2008 ISBN: 978-0803499256 Format: Hardback, 202 pages Genre: Contemporary romance Do you love Christmas and happily ever after? Do you enjoy romances that focus on the emoti...
Janet Kaderli Visiting This Week
[1] [2] On Wednesday and Friday, I'm hosting author Janet Kaderli [3] promoting her new contemporary romance, Santa's Angels (Avalon Romance) [4]. On Wednesday, I'll post a review of the book, and on Friday, I'll interview Janet. Disclosure: Jan...
