Websites 4 Writers either I or my friends enjoy on a regular basis.
BIW Member Interview Marlene Castricato is tenacious by definition. She backpacked around the world for three years and worked on a cruse ship as a senior officer for seven years. At forty-five, Marlene is a stay at home mom, nurturing her five year old daughter, ten year old son; ageless, but childlike husband and their…
The 2007 NanoWriMo is finally over. It was a long month. Looking back I see all the mistakes along the way that I let prevent me from making my goal. The most obvious was not sticking to my daily goal and thinking I could make it up the next day or the day after that….
BIW Member Interview Kathy Priebe is the author of “Stones of Iris” serial, “The Stones of Iris” book edition and “The Littlest Mermaid” available at LuLu.com. Her non-fiction piece “What Does A Grandma Do?” was printed in Lakeland’s Write On 2000 issue and reprinted in the 2001 issue. Moe: When did you know you wanted…
I signed up a few weeks ago for NaNoWriMo, the crazy November writing challenge, in which writers from all over the world sign up to write a book in one month. That’s 200 pages for a total of 50,000 words I have no story idea in mind just a title (and not a very good…
BIW Member Interview Brenda Schilly lives in a small town in Missouri with her husband, five children, three dogs and bird. She has had poems published in small chapbooks and recently went back to her favorite genre, fiction. Currently, she is working full time in sales and moonlighting as a fiction writer. Moe: When did…
BIW member Ele is involved in an interesting venture called Virtual Book Tour. It’s a convenient way of using the internet to connect with more readers and fans than a regular bookstore tour allows. You can learn about the latest tour through either of these two links: Blog Book Tours Lens Blog Tours Blog Don’t…
BIW Member Interview Sandy Murphy lives in St Louis, Missouri, where she can see the Gateway Arch and smell the beer from Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Sandy’s article about Izzie appeared in Animal Wellness Magazine. Also in residence is Avery, a Cairn/Yorkie mix and Avery’s five cats. Avery does allow Sandy to feed, clean up after and…
If you don’t know about National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it is affectionately called by it’s participants, it is a yearly writing challenge that started in 1999. For the month of November every year participants write like mad to achieve the collective goal of a 175 page (50,000-word) novel. NaNoWriMo is similar to…