Why Do I Write?
By Dr. Mitchell Gibson
Writing is one of the greatest passions of my life. When I was eight years old, I wrote a two page short story describing the emotions that I experienced during my parents separation and divorce. My third grade teacher read the piece and was moved to tears. She [...]
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Guest Blogger: Why Do I Write by Dr. Mitchell Gibson
October 21st, 2011 
admin Guest Blogger: 5 Things You Should Know about the Crazed Artist, Caravaggio
October 20th, 2011 admin 5 Things You Should Know About the crazed artist, Caravaggio
By Gregory Earls
1. On April 26th 1604, at a nice restaurant in Rome, Caravaggio ordered a plate of eight artichoke hearts, four fried and four sautéed. He kindly asked the waiter which was which? Yet when the waiter replied with what Caravaggio interpreted as a [...]
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1 Comment »Guest Blogger: 5 Things You Should Know About Promoting Your Book by Terrell Dunnum
October 17th, 2011 admin 5 Things You Should Know About Promoting Your Book
By Terrell Dunnum
Take advantage of online tours. Virtual tours are a way to travel thousands of miles and to meet many cultures of different language.
Write out a marketing plan. Just as every business has a business plan you should have a marketing plan. When you are taking [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: 5 Things, Guest Blogger, promoting your book, Terrell Dunnum, While There is Still Time 1 Comment »Guest Blogger: The Muse Next Door by M.E. Patterson
October 13th, 2011 admin The Muse Next Door
By M.E. Patterson
Launching a writing career is a funny thing. You go to a party or a social gathering and, with your book now finally “on the shelf” (albeit maybe only virtual shelves), you finally have the confidence to answer the inevitable “what do you do?” question with the answer, “I’m [...]
Guest Blogger: Ten Things You Don’t Know About Greg Messel
October 5th, 2011 admin TEN THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT GREG MESSEL
By Greg Messel
1. I’m an obsessive movie attender. I love to go by myself. It’s my alone time. Sometimes I sneak out to go to a movie by myself. I attend movies with my wife and friends but I also really like to go by myself. I’m [...]
Guest Blogger: 5 Things I Learned After My Book Was Published by Mary Ann Loesch
October 5th, 2011 admin 5 Things I Learned After My Book Was Published
By Mary Ann Loesch
The road to publication has not been an easy one for my novel, Nephilim. Finding the right home for this urban fantasy took some time and careful thought. In the end, it fell into the capable hands of Lyrical Press Inc. Now that it’s [...]
Posted in 5 Things You Should Know, Guest Bloggers, The Story Behind the Book Tags: A Side of Grits, All Things Writing, angel, angels, Austin, author tour, authors, award-winning author, beginning writers, blog tour, book event, book promotions, book publicity, book publicity tour, book tour, books, demon, fantasy, grim sleeper, hellish beings, ink, literarily speaking, Loesch’s Muse, Lyrical Press, Mary Ann Loesch, Nephilim, paranormal, paranormal author, paranormal fantasy, Pump Up Your Book, Red Fez, romance, science fiction, serial killer, seven deadly sins, sixth street, SNM Horror Magazine, tatoo, tatoo artist, tattoo shop, tattoos, teacher, Theatre Arts, urban fanasy blog tour, urban fantasy, urban fantasy novel, virtual book tour, Writers League of Texas Manuscript contest No Comments »Guest Blogger: 5 Things I Learned About Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It That Will Knock Your Socks Off by Tamara Elizabeth
October 4th, 2011 admin 5 Things I Learned About Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It That Will Knock Your Socks Off
By Tamara Elizabeth
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”-Madeleine L’Engle
You know the old adage, “If I only knew then what I know now boy would things
have been different”? How [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: become lovable, blog tours, book publicity, book publicity tours, deal with break-up, discover self-esteem, discover your moxie, discovering my lovable me, Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It, find your self-worth, forgive yourself, future desires, future reflections, heal your self-esteem, how to forgive, inner beauty, inner child needing to be loved, motivational, motivational author, moximize, online book promotions, past reflections, present reflections, Pump Up Your Book, self-help, self-help author, starting over, stepping out of your comfort zone, Tamara Elizabeth, transition, virtual book tours No Comments »Guest Blogger: All for the Love of a Cat by Candace Hall
October 3rd, 2011 admin All For the Love of a Cat
By Candace Hall
When I sit alone in the dark and feel the silence surround me, I know, I have a friend. His warm eyes meet mine and seem to say, hey! “Who loves you baby?” Those mornings when you wake up and just don’t want [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: A Christmas Secret, author tour, blog tour, book campaign, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, California, California author, California girl, Candace Hall, children's book, children's book author, Christmas, Christmas book, elves, holiday book, holiday children's book, North Pole, online book promotion, pine needles, presents, Pump Up Your Book, Santa, Santa's reindeer, sell your book, snowy Christmas, Tate Publishing, Texas, Texas author, toys, virtual book tours, wrapping paper 1 Comment »Immaculate House or Published Book?
September 27th, 2011 admin So how do you write and take care of everything else at the same time? Christa Allan is here to talk about what goes on in her crazy life and how she manages to write, too!
Immaculate House or Published Book?
By Christa Allan
If I’d been more serious about writing a book years ago, I’d have [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: Abingdon Press, acceptance, author tours, authors, blog tours, book campaign, book promotion, book publcity, books, business owner, Christa Allan, Christians, contemporary fiction, forgiveness, gay, grace, Guest Blogger, Gumbo, high school teacher, homosexual, Labor Day, literarily speaking, Louisiana, Louisiana author, Louisiana teacher, Louisiana writer, love, online book promotion, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, single mom, southern author, southern woman, southern writer, The Edge of Grace, virtual book tours, Waling on Broken Glass, widow 1 Comment »The Galway Races
September 26th, 2011 admin THE GALWAY RACES
Guest post by Mary Carter
One of the chapters in my new novel, THE PUB ACROSS THE POND, takes place at the Galway Races. That’s horse racing for those of you imagining speedy cars or men running after pints of Guinness. The racetrack has an actual castle in the middle of the field. [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: Accidentally Engaged, author tours, blog tours, book campaign, book promotions, book publicity, fiction, freelance writer, Guest Blogger, Ireland, Ireland pubs, Ireland travel, Kensington, Kensington author, Kensington books, Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice, novelist, online book promotion, promote your book, pub, Pump Up Your Book, romance, sell your book, She'll Take It, Sunnyside Blues, The Galway Races, The Pub Across the Pond, virtual book tours, women's fiction, women's fiction author, women's fiction book, women’s fiction No Comments »5 Things You Should Know About ‘Trees Cry For Rain’
September 24th, 2011 admin 5 Things You Should Know About Trees Cry For Rain
By Dr. Jeri Fink
1. What’s the real story? We’ve been conned – taught that history took place in disconnected events. What could Christopher Columbus, the Inquisition, the expulsion of Jews from Spain, and the discovery of chocolate have to do with one another? Trees Cry [...]
Posted in 5 Things You Should Know, Guest Bloggers Tags: Dr. Jeri Fink, Guest Blogger, Trees Cry for Rain 3 Comments »5 Common Mistakes of a First Draft
September 16th, 2011 admin 5 Common Mistakes of a First Draft
by T.M. Wallace
I remember the elation I felt upon completing my first draft. It had taken me hours to write – many momentous hours spent in the very different world I had created for my characters. My characters and I were now fast friends, having gone through so much [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: adventure, author, author tours, blog tours, book campaign, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, books, C. S. Lewis, Eden, fairies, fairy chess, Fairy Queen, fairy tale, fairymoon, fantasy, first draft, first draft mistakes, game, garden, gifted girls, Guest Blogger, labyrinth, magic, moon, online book promotions, Paradise Lost, pixie, publicity tours, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, T.M. Wallace, Under a Fairy Moon, virtual book tours, Wonderland, writing, young adult 2 Comments »5 Things You Should Know About Becoming a Published Author by Shobhan Bantwal
September 15th, 2011 admin 5 Things You Should Know About Becoming a Published Author
by Shobhan Bantwal
1. The path that takes one from aspiring author to published author is a tough one to navigate. Until a writer actually steps on to it, she is not likely to know the challenging journey that she is about to undertake.
2. In the world [...]
Posted in 5 Things You Should Know, Guest Bloggers Tags: 5 Things, Andhra, arranged marriage, author publicity, author tour, author tours, bestselling authors, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book campaign, book marketing, book promotion, book promotion companies, book promotion company, book promotion online, book promotions, book publicists, book publicity, book tour, book tours, Bride, Full Moon, Hindu, how to be a published author, how to be published, Immigrant experience, Indian books, Indian brides, Indian culture, Indian weddings, Indian-American, online book promotion, online book publicity, online book tour, online book tours, promote your book, published author, Pump Up Your Book, Pump Up Your Book Promotion, Sari, Shobhan Bantwal, Telugu, the full moon bride, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours, women's fiction 1 Comment »5 Things You Should Know About My Heart Stopped Beating
September 14th, 2011 admin 5 Things You Should Know About My Heart Stopped Beating
By Chamed
1. I wrote it in the hope that the readers could better understand mental health patients and those who suffer. I wanted to show that many practices in the mental health sector, such as electroshock, are not cures nor therapies, but human right abuses which [...]
How to Sell A Lot of E-Books by Vincent Zandri
September 13th, 2011 admin For those of you who are not familiar with Vincent Zandri, I have to tell you this guy knows how to sell ebooks. Not just a few, but thousands. So it brings me great pleasure to have him here with us today at Literarily Speaking talking about what he does best. ;o)
How to Sell A [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: book promotions, Concrete Pearl, Guest Bloggers, how to sell ebooks, sell books, Vincent Zandri No Comments »Guest Blogger: Immaculate House or Published Book? by Christa Allan
September 7th, 2011 admin So how do you write and take care of everything else at the same time? Christa Allan is here to talk about what goes on in her crazy life and how she manages to write, too!
Immaculate House or Published Book?
By Christa Allan
If I’d been more serious about writing a book years ago, I’d have [...]
The Story Behind The Lonely Mile by Allan Leverone
September 7th, 2011 admin The Story Behind THE LONELY MILE
By Allan Leverone
I grew up in a little town in central Massachusetts and went to college in northern Indiana, at the University of Notre Dame. After my Freshman year I had a car, and driving back and forth for semester breaks and the like entailed a trip of nearly twenty-four [...]
Guest Blogger: A Day in the Life of a Fantasy Character and its Creator by Ian Alexander
September 6th, 2011 admin A Day in the Life of a Fantasy Character and its Creator
By Ian Alexander, author of the bestselling epic fantasy novel Once We Were Kings.
Life is no picnic if you’re the character in an epic fantasy book. It’s full of conflict, challenges, disappointments and the occasional pesky dragon. But despite the difficulties, there are wonderful [...]
Guest Blogger: Writing on the Toilet by Michael Reilly
September 5th, 2011 admin Writing on the Toilet
by Michael Reilly
My recently published novel, Fresh Heir, is about parenting. More specifically, the book explores the often overlooked paradox that our children have as much to teach us as we have to teach them. This theme can be assessed from a broad symbolic perspective, but it can also be extended [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: author, books, Fresh Heir, Guest Blogger, Michael Reilly, writing, writing on the toilet No Comments »Guest Blogger: The Secret to Becoming a Published Author by Debra Brenegan
September 5th, 2011 admin Debra Brenegan, author of Shame the Devil, is here with us today to tell us the secret of becoming a published author!
The Secret to Becoming a Published Author
By Debra Brenegan
I’m going to tell you a secret. Not just any secret. The secret. The secret you’ve been dying to know – the secret to becoming a [...]
