Archive for August, 2007
« Previous Entries Friday, August 31st, 2007Author Yvonne Perry goes on Virtual Book Tour
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What is a Virtual Book Tour?
A virtual book tour is a way to have a book tour, without leaving your home or the extreme expense of traveling to visit book stores. Instead, a virtual book tour gives you […]
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007If You’re a Writer Who Wants a Best-Selling Title …
Last night I did a teleseminar in which I answered questions about how to choose a title for a book–or any information product–that would give it the most chance of becoming a best seller.
If you’re interested in listening to the replay, you can do so now.
don’t know if you were on the call last night, […]
Should You Muzzle Your Dog?
By Kate Garvey
Last year the average insurance pay-out for dog bites was $62,000. If your insurance company doesn’t cover dog bites, and your dog bites someone, you are likely to be stuck with an enormous bill.
Unfortunately, we live in a time when people do not take responsibility for their actions and the actions of […]
Listen to Book Bites for Kids, LIVE Every Friday!
Last week, Book Bites for Kids, a weekly podcast sponsored by the National Writing for Children Center, became a LIVE show on BlogTalkRadio.com.
Listen to the recording of last week’s show as Book Bites for Kids host, Suzanne Lieurance, chats with Canadian children’s author Debbie Spring about her middle grade historical novel - The Righteous Smuggler.
Then, […]
The Barred Owl and the Writer’s Life
By Tim Anderson
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
–Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart
There’s a path near my home that I walk quite frequently. The path itself is asphalt and it winds through a stand of trees along the edge of a creek. Though it’s in the middle of a populace suburb, I often spot wildlife. Deer […]
Author/Speaker Yvonne Perry Writes New Book that Challenges President George Bush on Stem Cell Research
Right to Recover Features More Than 600 Hours of Intensive Research and Interviews with Researchers, Doctors, and Political and Religious Figures NASHVILLE, Tenn. (August 2007) – Nashville author, freelance writer and speaker Yvonne Perry has penned a new book that uses more than 600 hours of intensive research and interviews to challenge the validity of President […]
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007PDF: The Smaller PDF Secret Control
by Jessica Dockter
This is another one of those “secret, buried-in-a-vault” killer tips that addresses something Mac OS X users have complained about: The file sizes of PDFs that Mac OS X creates are sometimes too big (vs. Adobe’s Acrobat PDFs). believe it or not, there’s a way to get smaller PDFs. Here’s how: launch TextEdit, […]
Back to School Fashion with Compassion
by Kate Garvey
Back to school shopping can be a wonderful time to educate your children about humane treatment of animals. One of the worst and most offensive industries concerning animal welfare is the fur industry.
Although the United States has a ban on the use of cat or dog fur, it is allowed […]
Need Help With Your Own Freelance Writing Career?
As much as I love to write, I also love to help new writers create the writing career of their dreams.
Every Thursday night, I offer a 55-minute telecoaching sessions for writers called Writers on Call. And now I’ve taken 15 of these past sessions and turned them into CDs to help other writers.
Writers can still […]
Obstacles and the Writer’s Life
By Tim Anderson
“The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.”
–Robert Benchley
The plight of the writer apparently persists from era to era. The writer stopped dead in his tracks in the 1940s by a typewriter ribbon is no different than the modern writer sidetracked by a faulty hard drive. […]