Message from blogger: As an avid reader and bibliophile, I LOVE giveaways. And because I love books and I appreciate the hard work that goes into writing one – let alone publishing one- I do whatever I can to support authors who have delivered spectacular stories to the world. Below is the Starfall Launch Blitz …
Q&A with Author Melissa Landers
Melissa Landers is the author of the Alienated Series and Starflight Duology, both of which have been published through Disney-Hyperion. Formerly a school teacher, Landers left to pursue her love of writing full-time and hasn’t looked back. During our interview, Landers pulled back the curtains on what life as an author is like and offers insight through …
Writing Resources (Web-based):
Resources are a basic component of survival. As living beings, we need food, shelter, water, and clothing to keep us warm or cool. These are basics needs to be met to keep us alive. There are, of course, several layers of needs. If you think about it, we need access to proper health care and for …
Q&A with Emily Rodgers
Emily Rodgers is a Pittsburgh-based adjunct English professor at AI, Duquesne University, and the Community College of Allegheny County. Outside of her role as an instructor, Rodgers is a musician who is both singer and songwriter in Emily Rodgers Band. She has been praised by NPR All Songs Considered, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Burgh Sounds, Pittsburgh City-Paper, …
25 Writing Prompts for 2017
Writing daily is hard. Actually, it might be more accurate to say the prospect of writing daily can be daunting. Life tends to happen: college assignments pile up, work becomes a vacuum for all your remaining free time, friends struggle while watching you struggle, and if you have children, bless your little soul. Somehow, you’ve …
Five Ways To Use Rejection To Your Advantage:
Life is full of rejection. Last one picked during recess? Rejected. Didn’t get into the college you wanted? Rejected. Turned down for a position you wanted because they “went with someone more qualified”? Rejected. Sooner or later, rejection feels less like a sharp word or a slamming door and more like a punch in the …
Hiking in the woods
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Where to stay
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5 Magazines Accepting Submissions
We all know how hard it can be to get anyone, especially publishers, to simply look at our work. Thankfully, this has yet to deter us from trying. Here’s a list of five publishers currently open to submissions:
Fictional Worlds: A Glance at World-Building.
World-building, the process of creating a fictionally imaginative world, is essential to the stability of any novel. At first glance, world-building can appear to be a simple act of building a physical world,like creating worlds in Minecraft or painting an imaginary landscape. World- building is much more than mountains in the distance or the …