My pack knows how to share. Occasionally one dog attempts to steal an inappropriate nibble from another’s bowl, but they mostly head to their spots and wait for whatever treat is coming their way. When I offer a pan with meat drippings or even a post-dinner plate or two, they politely help with the pre-rinse… Continue Reading
Success Story-New Book Exposes Health Threat to Black Americans & Offers Free Solution
In honor of American Heart Month and Black History Month, my writing coach client Dr. Surender R. Neravetla has published his second book Salt: Black America’s Silent Killer (Health Now Books, 2014) and released the related book trailer (which I helped create). The cardiac surgeon and Director of Cardiac Surgery at Springfield Regional Medical Center… Continue Reading
Starting a Blog the Right Way
“I want to start a blog for my business,” said my newest writing coach client. I had just received an initial batch of sloppy copy for her book and had assumed we would be talking mostly about that. On the other hand, she had mentioned that she wanted to focus on her real estate business… Continue Reading
Pacific Northwest Writing Contest
If your writing runs to the creative side—whether fiction or nonfiction—and you live in the Pacific Northwest, you just might want to heed the call for submissions to the Nature of Words’ 2014 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition. Oregon, Washington and Idaho residents, both young and older, can enter their work into three different genre… Continue Reading
Success Story – Rebranding
Sometimes we’re compelled to do the one thing we swore we would never do. When I accepted the position of Website Chair on the board of the Network of Entrepreneurial Women, a non-profit organization in Bend, I was assured that the website had recently been redesigned. All I needed to do was to make sure… Continue Reading
Lessons from my Dogs: Be Open to the Possibilities
I was supposed to adopt my brother Jeff’s English Cocker as soon as the two arrived from France. I knew there had been problems, which is why Bodhi had been forced to leave the Paris apartment my brother and sister-in-law share. But having housed Bodhi for a summer several years prior and subsequently successfully rehabbed… Continue Reading
Here’s to a Year of Fun and Joyful Writing
I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, but this year is the exception. I’ve resolved to bring more fun and more joy into my life. In thinking about this 2014 kickoff blog post, I realized that incorporating those two elements into one’s writing is really the key to keeping the writing momentum. So this year… Continue Reading
Writing News for the New Year
Determined not to start the new year with an overflowing Inbox, I forced myself to dive in and deal with every single scrap of paper that had accumulated over the months. I know what you’re thinking. Yes, I actually do have a painfully tangible Inbox as well as a virtual one. I’m happy to say… Continue Reading
Holiday Writing Break
Are you having trouble sitting down to write this holiday season? I know I am. After months of pushing so hard I wondered if I’d ever have a social life again, I’m spent. So this year I’m giving myself the best gift I can think of. I’m giving myself a reprieve. If you’re feeling like… Continue Reading
Marketing Tips and Tricks
As I mentioned in a prior post about writing effective web content, this fall I attended Bend Webcam 2013 where I heard , Dr. Susan Weinschenk, author of How to Get People to Do Stuff, speak. She offered so many interesting insights that I couldn’t include them all in a single post. Correct that. I… Continue Reading
Literary Agent:
Ted Weinstein
Ted Weinstein Literary Management
Mechanics’ Library Building
57 Post Street, Suite 512
San Francisco, CA 94104
tw@twliterary.com
www.twliterary.com