Tag: author
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Protected: Anjuelle Floyd | Stories of Women Making Things Right and Healing Relationships With Their Mothers
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Of Jonathon Franzen, Loneliness, and The Still Point of Attention …
It requires skill to craft tantalizing titles, bylines, etc. that coaxes readers, even those who receive your blogs as I do those written by The Mommy Psychologist to actually stop what we are doing and take in the blogger’s words. That what we read leaves us thinking, and pondering the subject of their website and…
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Of Hopes, Dreams, and Cheetah Mamas …
Now a mother of three daughters, a licensed psychotherapist and an author, I still lean back in awe at how much emphasis individuals of certain cultures, African-American included, place upon the success of our children. Some weekends ago I attended the Senior Recognition Ceremony held each year by hundreds of Jack-n-Jill Chapters across the country,…
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Protected: Of Elisabeth Badinter, Slavery, and The Choice to Work Full-time as a Wife and Mother …
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Of Prodigies, The US Secret Service, and Living Without Acting …
I suspect that much like the authors, actresses and actors, receive payment for their services in much the same fashion, and timing as Scott Pratt describes in a post on his blog, The Writer’s Predicament. He writes: “ … And the advance money? The fifty thousand? This is how they [the publisher] doled it out.…
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Of Ponzi Schemes, Bernie Madoff, and Honesty …
Practice To Deceive, a photo by Supremecourtjester on Flickr. Practice To Deceive “Oh What a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive.” ~ This is a melon skin overcolorized. ~ Scott Pratt in his blog roll The Writer’s Predicament, explains in exquisite, but simple and heart-felt detail the financial side of…