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Tag Archives: writer
Book Marketing, Part 1
[Apologies for the drought in postings this past week. I was on the road, and I’m not accomplished enough yet to compose and upload from my smartphone. This will happen one more time in May, but then the summer looms … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling
Tagged author, BEA, Book Expo America, books, marketing, Penguin Young Readers Group, Publishers Lunch Deluxe, publishing, Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye, Whoopie Pie, writer, YA, young adult
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First Lines
One of the hardest and most fun things a writer has to do is decide what the first line will be in the book they’re writing. Sometimes that line appears fast, out of “nowhere.” Sometimes a line pops up and … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Writing
Tagged Amateur Marriage, Amy and Isabelle, Anne Tyler, Annie Proulx, books, Charms for the Easy Life, Cleveland Rutters, Elizabeth Strout, first lines, foreshadow, foreshadowing, Kaye Gibbons, Laura Hillenbrand, memoir, Postcards, reading, Sara Gruen, Unbroken, Water for Elephants, writer, writing
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Writers Who Are Poets
I’m not a poet, but sometimes I wish I were. Poets have written some of the bestselling memoirs. Consider Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club. I’m sure there are others I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors
Tagged books, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Mark Twain, Mary Karr, Maya Angelou, memoir, Molly McQuade, One Word, poet, The Liars' Club, Walt Whitman, words, writer
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Introduction to Blog Plan
Why “Yours In Books”? Simple. It’s hard to engage me in any conversation for any length of time unless a book is mentioned at some point. I’m not an especially widely read person, but whatever someone else is reading or … Continue reading
Posted in About the Blog
Tagged blog, books, editing, el-hi, fiction, memoir, publisher, spiritual, spirituality, textbook, tradebook, writer, writing
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