Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Deadline 2/6
I want to encourage unpublished and self-published novelists to join me in entering Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest. There are two categories, General Fiction and Young Adult Fiction. The...
View ArticleOne Week in a Novelist’s Promo-Life
On this public version of my promo diary excerpt, I’ve removed specific names of the people and organizations that I reached out to. I don’t want to make any of them feel self-conscious if they turn...
View ArticleAmazon Breakthrough Novel Award Update
First, a grateful welcome to anyone visiting this blog for the first time via The Writer’s Center’s “First Person Plural” blog. I just checked out Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award Update for the...
View ArticleCelebratory Discount & ABNA Contest Update
I’m proud to announce that I’m a quarter-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest. In this third round, novels were judged on excerpts (the first 3,000 to 5,000 words). I entered Food and...
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Last Tuesday I found out that my novel Food and Worry didn’t make the latest round in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. I’m disappointed but still believe that Food and Worry is great. Since the...
View Article6-Word Stories and my SIX WORDS Novel
Image: m_bartosch / FreeDigitalPhotos.net In honor of short story month, here’s how Hemingway initiated the six-word story: For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Okay, but enough about Hemingway’s brevity....
View ArticleSelling Novels at Calvary Women’s Services Benefit
This Tuesday, November 8 from 9 am to 3 pm, I’ll be selling my novels FOOD AND WORRY and SIX WORDS at a charity boutique to raise funds to build a women’s shelter here in Washington, DC. The address...
View ArticleIn the Midst of Community-Minded Momtrepreneurs
Today was my best sales day ever (23 novels in 6 hours!), at a charity boutique for Calvary Women’s Services. Cindy Schwartz, a DC-based interior designer and photographer, has been raising money for...
View ArticleThe Text Isle Patchwork Cookbook is DONE!
Please pat me on the back for sticking with The Text Isle Patchwork Cookbook. In July, after a tough-love critique, I went back to the drawing board, and it became the hardest long-term project I’ve...
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I am so relieved and glad to announce that the paperback edition of THE TEXT ISLE PATCHWORK COOKBOOK is now available! It’s easiest to get it via this Amazon link:
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