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Lisa M. Russell
Coming soon>>> A GWA Podcast of your favorite workshops and a new Podcast in collaboration with the KSU Writing Center called Words to the Wise. A series of programs to enable the writer in you! More to come
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Professional Members Blogs Featured
Now Professional Members of GWA can add blog pages. You can add a page with a bio, links, pictures, videos and thats it or you can write a regular blog. Either way professional members are getting more exposure for their books and services. If you want to write a blog (great idea) but do not have much time to maintain a blog - consider recyc ...Oct 14 -
Finding Your Voice
My voice is often confrontational, but honest. I want to give you something that will change the way you think or live. From my experiences, I would rather punch you with my words than bore you into complacency with platitudes. Authenticity is a priority, but it is excruciatingly difficult to write with that brand of honesty. There is always that i ...Oct 11 -
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Bobbie Christmas
Editor Bobbie Christmas is your book doctor. She can also be your mentor, ghostwriter, copywriter, and writing and publishing consultant. After spending decades writing and editing for a living, Bobbie became a much-sought-after seminar and workshop leader. She began Zebra Communications in 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia, to provide professional editing services to publishers and to writers like you.
In the early 1990s, the book-publishing industry went through change and turmoil. In a cost-saving move, publishers preferred to buy edited books, rather than unedited ones. Bobbie saw a need, took a leap from the corporate ladder, and devoted herself full-time to Zebra Communications. In this role, she combines her love of writing with her understanding of the challenges of a writer. She gets great satisfaction out of helping other writers around the world realize their dreams.
Bobbie makes sure your work gets the high-quality editing it deserves, whether you write novels, nonfiction books, articles, short stories, or business materials.
Bobbie is the author of Write In Style , published by Union Square Publishing, New York, New York. She has also written a number of other books, articles, essays, and business publications.
In the early 1990s, the book-publishing industry went through change and turmoil. In a cost-saving move, publishers preferred to buy edited books, rather than unedited ones. Bobbie saw a need, took a leap from the corporate ladder, and devoted herself full-time to Zebra Communications. In this role, she combines her love of writing with her understanding of the challenges of a writer. She gets great satisfaction out of helping other writers around the world realize their dreams.
Bobbie makes sure your work gets the high-quality editing it deserves, whether you write novels, nonfiction books, articles, short stories, or business materials.
Bobbie is the author of Write In Style , published by Union Square Publishing, New York, New York. She has also written a number of other books, articles, essays, and business publications.
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Ask the Book Doctor: About Essays, Turning Humorous Essays into Newspaper Columns, and Formatting Titles
Q: I just wrote up an account of an event that happened to me when we first moved to Georgia. I want to know if it qualifies as an essay. It is not a series of musings on a central theme, as in some essays I’ve read. It is the true story of what happened and what I learned from it. I looked up how to write an essay, and the information told how to ...Oct 14 -
Essays, Turning Humorous Essays into Newspaper Columns, and Formatting Titles Featured
Q: I just wrote up an account of an event that happened to me when we first moved to Georgia. I want to know if it qualifies as an essay. It is not a series of musings on a central theme, as in some essays I’ve read. It is the true story of what happened and what I learned from it. I looked up how to write an essay, and the information told how t ...Oct 14 -
Capitalizing Seasons and Attributing Dialogue
Q: I read an article in the newspaper that referred to the season of autumn, which we also refer to as fall. In the article, the word “fall” was not capitalized. I have always wondered about this issue, usually capitalizing it, but never feeling sure of what’s right. A: To answer your question, I'll quote from my own book doctor's desk reference b ...Apr 25 -
Word Counts, Capitalizing Song Titles, Plurals, Credit Cards for Book Sales
Q: What formula do agents and editors use to come up with the word count? A: The word count is estimation, not exact science, so almost any formula will work, especially once your manuscript is in standard manuscript format. I can’t speak for each agent and editor, for they differ in opinions, but usually any one of the following methods will work ...Oct 21 -
Military Titles, Word Counts, Dark Fiction, Copyright Marks, Narratives
The Book Doctor, Bobbie Christmas is in: Q: What are the rules for capitalizing government and military titles? For instance, would I write “Hold him,” the general said, or would this be correct: “Hold him,” the General said. What about when using the characters name? “Hold him,” General Smith said. The same would apply for senators, representati ...May 23 -
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James Mesker
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James Mesker
James P. Mesker, author of A Practical Guide to Collecting Civil War, and Sister, Billy the Kid, and Me, received his education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As a historical researcher and archivist, Mesker volunteers with the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Cleveland Landmarks Commission. He was the ...Nov 05 -
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Annette Laing
Just learned that Don't Know Where, Don't Know When earned an Honorable Mention in in the Middle-Grade/Young Adult books category of the 19th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Woot!
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It Doesn't Get Any Cheaper Than This. Featured
Three kids from Georgia's most boring town (now there's a contest I'd like to see...) suddenly find themselves reluctant time-travelers to World War II England. To get home, they have to find an elusive man called George Braithwaite (whoever he is.) Meanwhile, can they survive bad food, scary old ladies, non-absorbing toilet paper, and Hi ...Dec 13 -
Historical "Accuracy" and the Plausibility Test: What Mel Gibson and I Got Wrong
One question I am often asked (as an academic historian who writes a YA/MG time-travel series) is "Are your books historically accurate?" It always makes me clench my teeth.Let me put it this way: The Snipesville Chronicles are more historically accurate than Mel Gibson's movie The Patriot. Or, in fact, any Mel Gibson movi ...Nov 09 -
We the Jury Aren't Who You Think We Are
Most of us have some idea of what a British courtroom looks like, thanks to PBS: Bewigged lawyers pleading their cases before a judge dressed in the mother-of-all-wigs and a red bathrobe; the anxious defendant wringing his hands in the dock; the jury with its obligatory knitting granny. When I came to set a scene in an eighteenth-century courtroom ...Oct 18 -
A Brit in Georgia. Among Other Things.
My name's Annette Laing. I was born in Scotland, raised in England, and came of age in California. So, to ask the question that everyone asks me, what am I doing in South Georgia? The truth (I was hired as a history professor at Georgia Southern University many years ago) is waaaay less interesting than anything I could make up, which makes ...Oct 17 -
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Jack Mathis
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J.P. Cunningham
Newer edition of SOMERSET is now available at amazon, professionally edited version. Meanwhile, earlier version ranked within top 20% of contestant entries in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. GA Author of the Year nominee as well. ISBN 9781453839515
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Just another day
Seventy percent of the individuals accosted by an aneurysm bursting within their head will slip into a coma and then pass away that particular day, without realizing what has burst within them. As I got ready for a full day of writing fiction on Tuesday, March 27th this spring, I felt an odd sensation within the frontal left of my head. ...May 23 -
newest version of SOMERSET, a novel by J.P. Cunningham
A professionally edited version of Somerset, a novel by J.P. Cunningham, is now available for purchase at amazon. The new Kindle version will be up for sale within the coming two or three weeks. ISBN 9781453839515. The first edition placed within the top 20% of contestant entries within the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. ...Nov 16 -
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Lisa Buie-Collard
Next book related event will be "Meet the Author" Lisa Buie-Collard this weekend, Saturday November 5 at the South Georgia Regional Public Library from 2-4 PM in Valdosta, Georgia. Please come and listen to a reading of "Evangeline's Miracle", get to know the author, and indulge in a Q&A session as well as tasty treats! Hope to see you there.
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Making a Molehill out of a Mountain Featured
I am a part of a small writer’s group here in my area and each week we pick a word and write whatever we want to pertaining in some way to that word. One of our words was “Mountain.” Here is what I wrote… I have a bumper sticker on my van that reads “Don’t lie to kids.” Many people ask me why I have it there, what does it mean? It ...Nov 29 -
Can't Sleep/ Love Books on CD Featured
What do you do at 2 am when you can’t sleep? Tonight, or should I say this morning, I got up, logged on and caught up on “Words with Friends,” email, Facebook and Twitter. Found some interesting new ideas for marketing. Now, since I’m still not sleepy I’m writing. I recently went up to North Carolina, as I tend to do at least once a month.& ...Oct 31 -
Up and Running on Smashwords Featured
I finally seem to have made it to Smashwords.com. It isn't a simple thing to be on their site as their formatting qualifications are steep. But, it helps to pay someone to do the formatting for you and it isn't (or wasn't for me) prohibitively expensive to have it done. So now the ebook is for sale there as well. I'm looking into doing an audio ver ...Oct 17 -
Book Reading/Signing in Black Mountain, NC
Jill Jones, my wonderful friend, mentor and multi-published author got the photos she took to me yesterday so I can now write a bit about how the book signing/reading went! I’m happy again just thinking about it and the thirty-odd people who showed up for it. There was a cost because it was a “tea” as well, and that was quite beyond ...Oct 14 -
Writing and Living, Not Always In That Order
These blog posts from me will be about events, movies, the writing life, whatever comes to mind as interesting/entertaining to me and perhaps others. I hope to be a help, to be a diversion, to be fun and intriguing to others. If you like this blog please keep reading. If not there is always ( I hope) someone else out there you will enjoy. So whatev ...Oct 14 -
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Katie Sigman
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I may not be a movie critic, but... Featured
...I was in line with all the other Twilight fans at 11:00 PM waiting to watch the newest release, Breaking Dawn, Part 1. At this point, these films are catering to the fans of the franchise. I can appreciate the books because I began reading them when Twilight was first released in 2006. As a sophomore in high school, I was very interested in fant ...Nov 18 -
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Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Where to find list of area pods?
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Taking A Chance on Love Featured
I would like to share a great blog posting I recently uncovered that’s as pertinent and vital today as when it was originally posted two years ago. The posting, called An Indie Call to Action, was posted by April L. Hamilton, the “author and indie publishing agitator.” What April suggests, essentially, in her post is that we, as writers, put our mo ...Nov 17 -
It's the Story, Stupid!
Indie writers, myself, particularly, since I also run an Indie micro-press, can easily get tangled up in the differences between trad-published writers and us. Because we are still fighting so hard for credibility and to wave away the stench of self-published from our books, we can tend to spend too much time focusing on the manner or way that we b ...Nov 11 -
The Pros and Cons of Paid Book Reviews Featured
If I have to explain the benefit of a rave book review to an author, I’m happy to do so. All the “pro’s” in the headline refer to this point and this point alone. A book review, for an Indie, is a lovely morsel of advertising that delivers credibility and the promise of quality that didn’t come from your own self-serving mouth. A positive book revi ...Nov 02 -
To Outline or Not to Outline?
At the suggestion of Kristen Lamb, (she of the We Are Not Alone–The Writer’s Guide to Social Media (indispensible IMHO), I just read James Scott Bell’s book “Plot & Structure.” It was a little scary reading it since I was more than half way done with the novel I’m writing, so much of the plotting had already been done. But with some helpf ...Oct 27 -
Spooky Stories of the South
When it comes to writing or reading ghost stories, what better time than the weekend before Halloween? This is a re-blog from the University Press of North Georgia and should totally put you in the mood for some scary weekend reading! If you’re looking for something good to read in the mystery genre, I hope you pick up copies of my books Little De ...Oct 24 -
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Myra Crawford
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The Real Housewife of Douglasville on Always Looking Your Best
I am the Real Housewife of Douglasville. I know because I have a wine glass engraved with the title. I've written for the Douglasville Patch a little over a year. Here is the latest blog. One would think that I had learned my lesson years ago. My first transgression was a cold, winter morning in Powder Springs ...May 08 -
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Brenda Rose
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Bleeding Words
Writers are forever pregnant with poetic words that whisper and pray and pause and pacify. We plant and plow and ferment words. We use fertile words such as fecund, semen, soil, fever. We spill our hearts for peaceful, soft, snowy, swollen words, and we touch with words that shiver and sweat and scratch and scrape and bruise. Writers crave enticing ...Mar 28 -
Planting Words in First Person Present Tense
After four weeks of writing, last night I made the final revisions to my latest short story, Samuel’s Wife. This morning, I sat in my study drinking a cup of coffee, my dog at my feet, my family still asleep, and read the story one last time. When I finished, I held the thirteen sheets of typed, double-spaced paper in my hands and thought of ...Jan 27 -
Jimmy's Marbles
Today, I placed Jimmy's marbles under my Christmas tree. My maternal grandmother gave birth to a son in January 1934. She named him James; they called him Jimmy. As the Great Depression and the boll weevil ate through the pocketbooks of southern farmers, Jimmy's health declined. After a long, dry summer of dying crops and dying dreams, he to ...Dec 22 -
Brackish, Poetry Worth Reading
He's a big guy who sports a smile true to his heart and shakes with belly laughter that erupts with little urging. In Brackish, a recently released book of poetry, that big man I call friend takes us to the gulf marsh where he digs, revealing entire stanzas buried alive, pulsing under mud and peat, thick and heavy with the past, and spreads t ...Nov 26 -
What Kind of Punctuation are You?
I used to write magazine articles for a financial planning firm based in one of the northern states. The CEO was a man who lived his life spiced with exclamation points. He started his days spitting out exclamation points and speaking in capital letters. He’d arrive at the office and say, “HOT DAMN! It’s colder than hell out there ...Aug 02 -
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Natasha Larivee
I am a writer.
Well, let me rephrase that…
I would like to be a writer. Writing is my passion, and what I’ve chosen as a career path. But the path to being a successful writer is not written in stone. There is no formula. There are no real directions.
My journey towards becoming a professional writer has taken me through college and will now take me to the Mecca of literary dreams: London.
Born in England but raised in the United States, I find myself at a unique position to take advantage of my cross-nationalism. I plan to work it into my writing, and to use my varied experiences to bring me closer to the ultimate dream of being successful enough as a writer that I can sustain myself on words alone.
Well, let me rephrase that…
I would like to be a writer. Writing is my passion, and what I’ve chosen as a career path. But the path to being a successful writer is not written in stone. There is no formula. There are no real directions.
My journey towards becoming a professional writer has taken me through college and will now take me to the Mecca of literary dreams: London.
Born in England but raised in the United States, I find myself at a unique position to take advantage of my cross-nationalism. I plan to work it into my writing, and to use my varied experiences to bring me closer to the ultimate dream of being successful enough as a writer that I can sustain myself on words alone.
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The Great Gamble
Just a little under a year ago I made a decision I was sure would impact the rest of my life for the better. I was only a year out from graduating college with a degree in English, but I had another passion: weather. I decided that I would finish my English degree and then proceed immediately to Georgia Tech to study Earth and Atmospheric Science. ...Apr 25 -
A New Blog From a New Writer!!
I've decided to start a blog which will chronicle my journey as a college graduate while I try to slide into the professional publishing and writing community. It will follow my escapades from the sticky, kudzu-covered fields of Georgia, to the busy, ruthless streets of London, England. You can follow my blog on wordpress.com, by following the link ...Apr 25 -
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