Not A Happy Ending: Common Story About Literary Agents
The Fate of 'Celebrity Chefs and Mentors: Women in Culinary Profession'
My celebrity chef project is officially shelved. I’ve spent two full years that included writing the twenty-nine page proposal and ...
AUTHORS & Book Promotion 21st Century Style Interview/ SHELDON EPPS/Director -MEMOIR
AUTHORS & Book Promotion 21st Century Style Interview/ SHELDON EPPS/Director -MEMOIR
Noted Artistic Director Sheldon L. Epps decided to write his memoir during the pandemic; his 30+ career in the american ...
AUTHORS & BOOK PROMOTION 21st Century Style Interview w/ Jennifer S Redmond-MEMOIR
AUTHORS & BOOK PROMOTION 21st Century Style Interview w/ Jennifer S Redmond-MEMOIR
Jennifer Silva Redmond, author of Honeymoon at Sea, her memoir chronicling her love affair with her husband Russell over ...
Jada & Me: I’m Not Divorced Either
Jada & Me: I'm Not Divorced Either
Ten years before Jada Pinkett split with Will Smith and remained living with him, I did the same with my former. I had my ...
AUTHORS and BOOK PROMOTION, 21st Century Style
Gayle Carline is the author of 15 suspense novels (mostly) and 14 are self published. Since the early days of self publishing, early to mid -2000's, she embraced this avenue ...
21st Century Book Promotion: Authors & Roads to Publication on ZOOM
21st Century Book Promotion: Authors & Roads to Publication on ZOOM
WHO: Marla Miller, host of 21st Century Book Promotion: Authors & Roads to Publication on ZOOM
WHAT:
ZOOM Interviews with 21st ...
Writersmama Service Connects Writers to ‘Traditional’ Publishing Paths
Writersmama Service Connects Writers to 'Traditional' Publishing Paths
For writers seeking traditional publishers,small press publishers and hybrid publishers, this Writersmama service includes:
3 month Commitment
Delivery of suitable agent names, a minimum ...
Eudora Welty, Award Winning Writer, 1909-2001, Discussing the Roots of Her Storytelling
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GMFA8ZSGanE
Eudora Welty, Award Winning Writer, 1909-2001, Discussing the Roots of Her Storytelling
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize / Fiction winner became known to me through my association with the Santa Barbara Writers ...
WritersMama Services: ZOOM Read and Critique plus Finding Literary Agents
WritersMama Services:
Zoom Read and Critique plus Finding Literary Agents
NEW Zoom Read & Critique Workshop
When the Southern California Writers Conference's FEB 2023 winter conference ends, I will launch a new ZOOM ...
Changing Times: Talk Truth to Publishing
Changing Times: Talk Truth to Publishing
Talk Truth to Publishing
I came to the writing life after a career in the mental health profession. Back in the mid to late 1990's our ...
Do Literary Agents Consider ‘Good News’ Stories Passe’?
Do Literary Agents Consider ‘Good News’ Stories Passe’?
Since fall 2022, I’ve been pitching my book proposal to literary agents across this country. The content? Gains made by women chefs as ...
Romanticism and the Writing Life
December 29, 2022
I know this mantra
We hear it from our elders who quote versions of it in workshops they teach and craft books they write. We share it with writers ...
HOOKING Is Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended ‘HOOKIE’
9/16/2022 SCWC, Query Letter Workshop w/Writersmama
HOOKING IS Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended HOOKIE!
(a.k.a agent or editor).
Crafting a hook-able query letter requires heavy lifting. Are you up ...
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasies of ‘Bestselling’
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasy of ‘Bestselling’
L.A. author Joe Ide, frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at the Southern California Writers Conference, is delighted with the success ...
Barnaby Conrad Keynotes at SBCC Writers Workshop
Barnaby Conrad Keynotes at SBCC Writers Workshop
Next week, I'll be teaching at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference where Barnaby Conrad could always be found mentoring writers. He loved it and ...
@Writersmama Zoom Workshops Expand & SCWC 2021 Update
Fall, 2021
Dear Subscribers,
I launched WritersMama ZOOM Read & Critique Workshop on April 3rd, 2020. Sixteen months later, this group still meets twice/week. Three of our writers are reading novel #2 ...
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
(I had the pleasure of hanging out with Mr. Leonard whose friends called him 'Dutch'. Barnaby Conrad, founder of SBWC, was one and often Dutch made an appearance at the ...
WritersMama Read & Critique ZOOM Workshops-JOIN US!
Covid19 Be Damned! WritersMama Read & Critique ZOOM Workshops-JOIN US!
Let's Workshop Together...Apart
April 4, 2020
Opening 5 Pages:
WritersMama Read & Critique Workshop via ZOOM
Okay, so this sucks and we all know it ...
An Editor’s Worth: Max Perkins
An Editor's Worth: Max Perkins
For the ultimate appreciation of an editor's worth, I encourage you all to read A. Scott Berg's Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. My view of literary life ...
Have Black Voices Mattered in Publishing?
Have Black Voices Mattered in Publishing?
A while ago, I attended a one-day workshop at a Southern California library intended for writers of color. The room semi-filled with nonwhite attendees, a ...
How To Write Like Joan Didion
How To Write Like Joan Didion
For every long sentence, you have to drop an anchor and slow down the pace.
In the same vein, build up a certain tone, then knock it ...
SCWC Workshop: Hooking Readers
In this MarketingtheMuse workshop I consistently offer via writers conferences, writers read the first two pages of their work in progress and we, the audience, let them know if we ...
Quick Query Letter Critique Videos-FREE for Viewing!
Marla Miller's MarketingtheMuse has over 200 Quick Query Letter Critique videos published on YouTube. All now organized into genres so subscribers can study critiques specific to your genre. We hope the ongoing ...
DISCUSSING RACE RELATIONS: WHERE DO WE BEGIN?
I wrote this in 2008 and not much has changed. We’re still not talking to each other.
Discussing Race Relations: Where DO We Begin?
In this time when an African American male ...
T. Jefferson Parker Talks Writing at S.C.W.C.
T. Jefferson Parker Talks Writing at S.C.W.C. Revising in 2017 and one week after the ALWAYS fabulous Southern California Writers Conference was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel, our San Diego muse ...
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein's Take on Novel Writing and Character Development
When you've been studying craft as long as moi , you collect lots of notes. Foraging ...
SCWC: Birth of The Pitch Witch Workshop
SCWC: Birth of The Pitch Witch Workshop. We first taught this workshop at the So California Writers Conference in 2010. Given the response, we knew the Pitch Witch Workshop was needed and ...
Premature Hiring of Editors-DON’T!
Premature Hiring of Editors-DON'T!
I've blogged about this topic a few times but it's worth repeating. Some writers seek editorial input prematurely. Unless you hope to work with an editor over ...
40 Minute FREE Query Letter Workshop!
Query Letters: I have written many query letters. For many years, most of my query letters were rejected. I kept pitching until my query letters began garnering attention. My rejections turned ...
Pitch Witch Writers Workshop
Pitch Witch Writers Workshop
Screenwriters call it the 'elevator pitch' - no matter the name, the goal is the same: Should you meet a publishing professional in an elevator who you ...
Dorothy Allison Talks About Writing at SBWC
Dorothy Allison talks about writing at SBWC.
In 2012, Dorothy Allison's critically acclaimed debut novel, Bastard Out Of Carolina, celebrated its 20 year anniversary, I did not read this coming of age ...