A blog for authors, about authors, written by an author
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For many things I’m grateful,
one of them is health
I don’t need to leave it fateful
health to me means wealth.
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Part of being wealthy is family and friends
having a home is also great to me
It’s important that love never ends
and that I’m truly safe and free.
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So many people don’t have anything to eat
They barely have water and the bit they have is unclean
Where I live in nature is giving and still neat
I have clothes to wear and the grass is green.
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I’m grateful for my education for the chances given to me
I’m thankful I can travel in planes and in my car
How glad I am that I have music, I can hear and I can see
that I have my dreams, moon and sun and wind and star.
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Life has given me so much to thank for
civilization, technology, a home and pets
what else do I need, what to I want more?
I am lucky, with me and my three cats.
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It’s time for saying prayers
to be thankful and feeling blessed
And to send our thanks to the One
and see them properly addressed.
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(Copyright: Aurora Jean Alexander, November 2019)
Thank you so very much for your Monday Funnies, TSRA! I found these memes so hilarious. I had a great laugh!
Julie Valerie writes a guest post on Anne R. Allen’s blog about influencers that can help authors reach agents, publishers, and readers. Thank you very much, Julie!
First things first, because I’m sure this question is on a lot of writer’s minds: does a book blog still land a book deal?
My answer? Of course, they do. Great writing and great content will always find an audience, and where there’s an audience, especially a sizable one, there’s typically a book deal waiting to happen. Think Julie Powell, Candice Bushnell, Jen Lancaster, and Jenny Lawson.
Not to mention, entire empires (with books launched along the way), have been built on the humble foundations of blog sites that just wouldn’t quit. Think ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse and Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi.
Lee Foster on ‘The Book Designer’ provides us with information about publishing our ebooks on Smashwords and how it’s changing. Thank you very much Lee!
This is a third and final perspective in my publishing strategy trilogy, a drama festival with three events, Amazon and Ingram being the earlier performances. There have been five-week breaks between these theatrics as I proceed in the Joel Friedlander modern publishing ecosystem.
If you want to distribute your ebook through Amazon directly and then also to “every ebook vendor beyond Amazon,” how should you do it? Smashwords is my recommended choice.
Thanks so much, Bluebird, for the wonderful cat-memes in your ‘Caturday Funnies’. I enjoyed them so much!
Derek Haines informs us about writing styles and teaches us to know about them to improve our own writing. Thank you very much for that very educational blog post, Derek!
There are six general types of writing styles. They are descriptive, expository, persuasive, narrative, poetic and technical.
When you understand the differences between each one, they will help your word choice and sentence structure.
In other words, you can keep to a specific style to suit any particular piece of writing.
A fiction author writes in a different style to a blogger, an article writer or a political commentator.
