Please join me as a guest of Rachel Berry aka Lady Serenity, on From the Heart and Soul as I discuss how I came to writing, my process for crafting fiction, my collection of short stories, Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident, and my soon to be released, novel The House.
So tune in.
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Cheryl Snell is a poet and literary fiction writer, author of seven poetry collections, a book of short stories, and two novels.
She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, had work chosen for inclusion in the Sundress Best of the Net Anthology, and, in collaboration with her sister Janet, won the Lopside Press chapbook competition for Prisoner’s Dilemma, a collection of art and poetry on game theory.
She can be reached at cherylsnell3@gmail.com
Cheryl keeps two blogs, one devoted to poetry and her sister’s art at http://www.snellsisters.blogspot.com; the other an author’s blog for her debut novel at http://www.shivasarms.blogspot.com
The novel, Shiva’s Arms (The Writer’s Lair Books) explores the relationship between an American woman and her Hindu Brahmin in-laws.
“When I first met my new family, this passage from Wonderland’s Alice popped into my head– “What if I should fall right through the center of the earth…oh, and come out the other side, where people walk upside down?”
I knew the basics—don’t touch the men, no shoes in the house, have a fry pan uncontaminated by meat handy. But there were an overwhelming number of ambiguities to sift through, from the comic head-shaking that looked like No but meant Yes, to the serious conflict between freedom and family.
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One of the things we learn as psychotherapists is to interpret what clients are actually saying vs. the words they speak.
This is not to say that clients lie. I have found those with whom I have worked to be incredibly honest. They were investing a substantial amount of time and money into their sessions to learn more about themselves and how they could achieve their goals and dreams.
And yet we all have our defenses.
As a client myself, I have benefited enormously from psychotherapists who could see through my defenses and careful choice of words and lead me to the heart of the truth ebbing or perhaps bleeding through.
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I never intended to become a writer. It started as a fluke.
I’d always loved reading, had a big imagination and talent for crafting stories but hadn’t inspired to do it professionally until I turned nineteen and got my first computer.
From that moment another world opened up to me.
My very first story started from a vision of this boy on the beach. I just couldn’t get this out of my head.
Everyday I added to that scene and before long I had my first finished novel.
After seeing that nothing else had ever made me feel so good as writing I decided to try to become a published author.
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Self-Publishing v. Traditional Publishing
What are the differences between traditional publishing and self-publishing?
Where do the two converge?
Where do they stand distinct?
What if your book is non-fiction or fiction?
How does this affect they way to seek to bring it to print?
How do you balance marketing your book–fiction or non-fiction–with writing the book?
Can authenticity and embedding a bit of yourself–who you truly are–in your promotion tactics create an effective marketing strategy, one that pays off in both the establishment of your brand, and achieves the sale of books?
Non-fiction author Sharon Saylor, and fiction writer, Anjuelle Floyd will address these questions during Self-Publishing v. Traditional Publishing, a discussion hosted and moderated by Elizabeth Stark Powers, author of Shy Girl: A Novel, writing teacher, and founder of Book Writing World.
http://www.bookwritingworld.com
Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010
Time: 9am PDT, 10am MT, 11am CDT, 12 pm EDT
To listen to, or join this online meeting go to: https://bookwritingworld.webex.com/bookwritingworld/j.php?ED=140042922&UID=490696632&PW=NYTY5YTRmZmQ3&RT=MiM0
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Poet, author of “From the Heart and Heat of Me,” and “Family Pictures,” and blog talk radio host of “From the Heart and Soul with Lady Serenity”, Rachel Berry, will discuss her writings and her radio show. Rachel is the founder and president of Black Pearls United INC., which was founded in 2000.
Tune in.
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I come from a family of writers, though none of them knew it. They hid their thoughts, so eloquently expressed in letters packed carelessly in cardboard boxes and stashed in a hot and dusty attic. I found these letters from the twenties, forties, fifties when I was settling my aunt’s estate. They were there with my own, the ones I sent her throughout my childhood. I was faithful if not completely in command of my words then. I can tell that I tried to sound literary, even when describing a trip to the movies or a problem with my sister.
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