You know you have made it big when you land a skit with Elmo. Melissa McCarthy is rather cheery, it is Elmo after all.
In part one I talked about rejection and the inevitability of it. Continuing on the same theme,ย ย please take a minute and cheer yourself up with some of the more famous literary rejections.ย These anecdotes always give me hope because they all have a common thread: every writer here persisted despite the rejections. Robert M Persig‘s Zen…
A few weeks ago an online “friend” (a.k.a. someone I stalk on all my social networks) started posting pictures of stamps she made — she carved them, dipped them in ink and applied them to paper. It is a little more complicated than that but you get the gist. The theme she is currently working…
She became an internet sensation among young adult book readers when she started publishing her vampire books online (LuLu/Amazon/Barns & Noble) and marketing them herself, many for only .99 cents. Within a year she had sold a million books before she was picked up by a traditional publisher. I learned about Amanda Hocking earlier this…
“My parents were visiting.” “My kids had friends over.” “We were hiking.” “I had a beach romance.” “It was too hot.” “It was time to pick the tomatoes.” All year we long for summer, when schedules ease and sunshine lasts well into evening. However, when summer comes, too often our writing gets put off until…