Tag: publishing

  • Illustrating the Truth about Publishing a Children’s Picture Book

    Illustrating the Truth about Publishing a Children’s Picture Book

    I welcome author and writing teacher Pamela S. Wight to the blog today to share her path of publishing a illustrated children’s book, a process that took her favorite story from dream to reality. Pam is an inspiring teacher and I learned how to boost imagination in storytelling in her creative writing class. Here’s her…

  • Change 1 Thing for New Years

    What would it be, if you could change one thing in the New Year? This is a question I ask myself at the end or beginning of a year, before New Years, at birthdays too. My friends’ responses to the question this year ranged from the personal to the political, and even global: look in…

  • The Next Big Thing – Indie Book Blog Hop

    The author interview series called The Next Big Thing Blog Hop asks: What’s the next big thing in the indie book reader world? At The Next Big Thing Blog Hop, authors from around the world share the inside stories on their new work. Each author’s new blog post answers 10 questions about writing and publishing…

  • Publishing Your Writing – A Test for the Ego

    Have you been writing for years and years, and hoped to publish one day? I have, ever since I was a child. I can’t even count on my fingers and toes the times I sent treasured poems and stories out, hoping they would be published. I published my 2 new fiction books in the span…

  • Spaceships to eBooks – Interview with a Publisher Engineer

    I met Mike Macartney, publisher and engineer, in May this year when he added his 6 scientists to my journal blog post about 6 scientists who “rocked my world”.  He added  the fascinating applied scientists: Isaac Newton, John Von Neumann, Jonas Salk, Lewis Leakey and Nikola Tesla. Reading his comment, I thought this was someone I should try to get to…