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- Understanding Personal Essays: What’s Your Opinion July 14, 2009By Abigail Green Think op-ed pages are all angry letters about parking meters and people spouting off about politics? Think again. The op-ed pages of many newspapers are great places to publish timely, topical personal essays. Depending on who you ask, op-ed is short for “opposite the editorial page” or “opinion-editorial.” Either […]The Writer Mama
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- Comment on Dear Fellow Writers (July/August e-zine starts here…) by writerinspired July 9, 2009Christina, I love that you said this (we're all thinking it, right?) Technology has been a blessing: in linking me to you, other writer mamas, teachers and a support system throughout the world. However, getting wrapped up in the go-go-go of the world wide web is daunting, and exhausting. I will "unplug" so I can tune in to my own core and the […]writerinspired
My mystery novel-in-progress just won its third award. While I’m waiting to hear from agents, I pitch the first chapter, first line, whatever chunk of it to contests. I won third place in the first chapter category of the Alabama Conclave writing contest, first place in the opening hook at http://wordwright.biz/, and just heard about honorable mention in the first chapter contest at Writing Show (www.writingshow.com). The judge was CJ Box, a six-time published mystery author. Received a 750-word critique that shot me to the moon!
I just received word that I will have four stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Love Stories to be released in February, 2008. Thanks for this opportunity to share my good news.
Congratulations Hope and Samantha! Way to go ladies! I have a little good news of my own. I just received a royalty check for sales on my second book Mirrored Images! What a wonderful Christmas present my royalty check was
It gave me even more of an incentive to continue doing what I love, writing & publishing. Although I sometimes submit my work to non-paying markets, it’s always nice when we are paid for our writing (and that includes royalty checks for our book sales)! I have also begun to get paid good money from the paying markets for my short stories and poetry. So 2008 is going to be a better year for me and my family 