An advanced review of Peggy Eddelman’s debut middle-grade novel, SKY JUMPERS, for ages 8-14 or up. SKY JUMPERS, by Peggy Eddelman Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Release Date: September 24, 2013 Takeaway: If you liked THE HUNGER GAMES, you’ll love SKY JUMPERS with a similar voice and feel, strong female lead and male […]
Internet Writing & Blogging Why you should not Steal Royalty-Free Images for your Articles There are a lot of people in the world today who believe that if you find an image on a website, it’s fair game to just right click it and save it and use it for whatever you want to use […]
Thoughts on Writing: Generating ideas for online article writing As a freelance writer, I often find paying writer’s jobs on the internet, and then I read the submission guidelines, check out what the site or publication has published in the past, and then research a bit and write a query or article and submit it on […]
Writing Tips Freelance writing: Editing and formatting a magazine article Abstract: One common question asked by new freelance writers is how to format a magazine, article or short story submission when the publication/publisher has not posted any submission guidelines. It’s very important that if the publisher had posted submission guidelines, you follow them. One common […]
So we have a few cases in our area, three in my suburb city. Technically, we’re Galveston county, but Harris county is literally 5 blocks from me on one side, which puts me about halfway between Galveston and Houston. We’re a suburb of Houston proper, but it doesn’t feel like Houston to me, which I […]
Today marks one week of covid19 isolation and staying on lockdown. I broke down and ordered food in today. I’ve been cooking at home for three weeks and I was just not feeling up to cooking, so we ordered from Door Dash a no-contact delivery. They literally knock on the door and leave it on […]
Being cooped up indoors and not being able to go anywhere means I should have plenty of time to write. Writing socially isolates the author. We tend to go off into our own little worlds and disappear into that universe. I can live inside my mind and be perfectly happy. When my parents would ground […]
It’s so funny how we have these brains that work in strange ways. I don’t leave the house much at all, but as soon as I’m told I can’t leave the house, I think of all these places I want to go. Today, we tried to take the van (Which we finally were able to […]
Today, I felt like snizzle so I slept most of the morning and part of the afternoon. Then I realized my deadline for my most recent book that I finished in the THREE series is due by midnight on the 11th and I was not finished editing or formatting it, so I got busy doing […]
Things are going to be different for the next couple of months, and honestly, perhaps longer….perhaps permanently.We wash veggies better than before. We lysol the mail and packages that come in. We don’t order from places like Wish, where we know product has come from China or South Korea. Then we cancelled home health, because […]
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