* Margaret Rosenberg has journeyed more than 30,000 miles to conduct Napoleonic research, including to St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic. She is director of the Napoleonic Historical Society, a non-profit that promotes knowledge of the Napoleonic era, and on her website, margaretrodenberg.com, she reports on Napoleon’s ongoing presence in world culture. *
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By Joey Garcia E-blasts are dead. Most book promotion press releases are terrible. I should know—I’ve read plenty recently while on staff as a newspaper columnist, radio talk show host, and TV personality. It doesn’t matter whether the release was sent by a publisher, a publicist, or an author attempting to DIY their own publicity
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A word on play. A serious word on play. I write this as one who just wrote a craft book. Which might be defined as a lot of thinking about writing: how it happens, why it happens, how to do it, why do it. When I grew up in the early Pleistocene era, there were
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Inspired by Art: Finding Integrity
WRITING INSPIRED BY THIS PAINTING We’ve all seen children’s books with the story of Jonah coming out of the mouth of the whale. But it’s never been about the whale for me. I was writing This Is Why I Came puzzling over the short story of Jonah in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. God sends
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* Linda Joy Myers is president and founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her memoir Don’t Call Me Mother—A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness was a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist and winner of the BAIPA Gold Medal award. She’s also the author of five books about memoir writing,
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Know What Draft You’re In
Instinctively, we know that every draft is different. In the first draft, we can’t really be held responsible for the exact quality of what we produce; we just got here, ourselves. We are just trying to cover the ground. In the second draft, we might be learning the ropes a bit more. We can say
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Owning your readership: Why you need a website and a newsletter
I have talked in previous blog posts about the importance of owning your readership. One of the most important things that you can do when starting out in your author career is to have a place that you own where your readers can find you. The best place for this? An author website and a
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* Tongo Eisen-Martin is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. * His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the
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Fighting Imposter Syndrome to Succeed as an Author
You may have seen Chris Collins interviewed recently on NPR, CBS News, NBC Boston, SiriusXM, KPFT Houston or News4Jax. Or perhaps you’ve read his book Mending Our Union: Healing Our Communities Through Courageous Conversations, lauded by former U.N. Ambassador Jack Danforth as “…an important addition to…the Ministry of Reconciliation. Given his book’s success, it might
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