Rosalie T. Turner discusses her novels, “Sisters of Valor,” “Freedom Bound,” “Going to the Mountain: Lessons for Life’s Journey,” “My Very Own Book of The Lord’s Prayer”.
Her recent publication, “Beyond The Dream”, inspirational and historical fiction recently debuted. Rosalie has now begun research for her next title, “March With Me”, about the 1963 Childrens March in Birmingham, Alabama.
So tune in.
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Contributing authors discuss their stories in the anthology, “Oil and Water and Other Things That Don’t Mix”.
Contributing authors (pictured): Zetta Brown (editor and publisher), Shonell Bacon, Lissa Brown, Maureen E. Doallas, Angela Elson, Melanie Eversley, L. B. Gschwandtner, Mary Larkin, Karen Pickell, Tynia Thomassie, Linda Lou Vegas, and Amy Wise.
Other contributors: (not pictured) Dallas Woodburn, Nicky Wheeler, Jenne R. Andrews, Nicholson Brown, Mollie Cox Bryan, Mylène Dressler, Nicole Easterwood, Kimeko Farrar, John Klawitter, Kelly Martineau, Patricia Anne McGoldrick, Ginger McKnight-Chavers, Carl Palmer, Dania Rajendra, Cherie Reich, and Jarvis Slack.
So tune in.
Other Places Where You Can Connect with Contributing Authors
Zetta Brown
Zetta Brown’s Desk
Jim and Zetta
Shonell Bacon
CGL Entertainment
Melanie Eversley
http://content.usatoday.com/community/tags/reporter.aspx?id=447
http://www.thegrio.com/author/melanie-eversley/
http://www.theroot.com/users/melanieeversley
http://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieeversley
Cherie Reich
http://cheriereich.blogspot.com
Tynia Thomassie
http://oilwaterdontmix.blogspot.com/2011/03/meet-tynia-thomassie-author-of-bop-this.html
Author and publisher, Zetta Brown’s recent blog, “Authors! Can’t find your book in a bookstore? You may be luckier than you think!”, got me to thinking–no pun intended–about the old law of economics, that of supply and demand.
With bookstores and sellers tightly adhering to what seems to me, an outdated mode of purchasing books from publishers, and authors who choose to self-publish–that of retaining, if not demanding, the opportunity to return unsold books they have received from us–I wonder what would happen if publishers and authors began to print less books.
A blog post, “A Woeful Truth About Publishing,” at Champagne Books explains this paradoxical phenomenon in detail.
In short what I’m really saying is, “How would economic market respond if publishers did not make books so readily accessible?”
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Author of Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work, popular speaking and writing instructor, Joni B. Cole, discusses her book, “Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive”.
Joni is also the creator of the acclaimed “This Day”–three-volume series, This Day: Diaries From American Women and This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America–revealing the reality of a diversity of American women’s daily lives (“both fascinating and eye-opening,” Publisher’s Weekly).
Nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize, Joni has published numerous essays in literary journals, and is a contributor to The Writer Magazine [7 Myths About Feedback].
Her book Another Bad-Dog Story and Other True Tales will be released this fall from PublishingWorks.
Joni lives with her family in Hartford, Vermont.
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Working as both a wife of nearly 29 years, and mother of 3, has prepared me in various ways to accomplish the work of a fiction writer.
Working as a wife and mother requires a lot of what an Islamic Imam described as grinding pepper.
Grinding pepper, from the perspective of the imam encompasses those activities that we here in the west describe as comprising the bane of our existence–mindless tasks, that we view as disrespectful of our intelligence and that devalue our worth as a person.
The world banal implies a lack of uniqueness.
Something that is banal possesses no originality.
It is like the wheel that begs for no reinvention, rather more unique and original ways of bringing a deeper level of presence and attention to the task(s) at hand–tasks that when practiced with a presence of mind and heart sharpen our skills and artistry in all areas of life, yield an original creation, and transform us as individuals.
Of Grinding Pepper, Banalities, and Seeking That Which We Yet Understand… Read More »
Revelation plays an important role in constructing and/or assembling the middle section of a novel.
Revelation also encompasses the uncovering of truth of what has always stood present, but remained hidden by strong held illusions and beliefs.
Stories and novels stand upon revelations, ones that sustain the cause-and-effect events that comprise, most particularly, the plot of a novel and that lead towards crisis and onto climax.
Of Revelation, Illusions and the Parallel Processes of Writing and Discovery… Read More »
My mum rang me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago.
She had found my old intermediate school reports – most of my teachers said the same thing: “Elle is very good with her writing and reading but disrupts lessons in class and upsets her classmates.”
Hmmmm – so basically I’m a pain in the ar*e who can read and write – explains why I write.
Working full-time as a palliative care nurse for the past seven years, I’ve rediscovered my inner-child, revisited all the things I dreamed about as a kid.
I don’t think there’s one single person on this earth that hasn’t felt alone and afraid.
When you are able to describe very intense emotions/feelings that you have felt personally – in any form of literature and other people can relate – that is pretty awesome.
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