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Three books I would recommend to help you fight writers block and get you to start writing are as followed
Writing Prompts
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Trope Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3rXB9Rw
Conflict Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3H3AYIO
I found these books to be great to help with boosting my creativity efforts when I hit brick walls in my story
I hope they can help you.
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National Authors In Grocery Store Program
About the program: This program partners with local grocery stores to give Independent Authors a venue to hold book signings and sell their books to customers during the book signing.
Speaker: Raymond Depew, Author and President of The National Authors in Grocery Store Program will be speaking virtually on our Facebook page
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September 10, 2022 at 10am
He’ll be answering questions, giving tips and tricks for local book signings and more!
and then also join us offline at Motown Writers Network meetup
Three books I would recommend to help you fight writers block and get you to start writing are as followed
Writing Prompts
https://amzn.to/3gV6RsE
Trope Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3rXB9Rw
Conflict Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3H3AYIO
I found these books to be great to help with boosting my creativity efforts when I hit brick walls in my story
I hope they can help you.
Growing in the Gray is a young adult coming of age story that takes you through the world from Krista Clark’s (the protagonist’s) point of view as she navigates a new city, starting college, and maybe being in love for the first time. All while simultaneously dealing with her anxiety, and her family going broke.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
About author: Christian Sandra-Elise Cook is from the suburbs of Detroit. At age 16, she graduated high school and then attended Columbia College Chicago. Here, she obtained a BA in Public Relations, and discovered her depth as a woman and a writer by taking various creative writing courses and using the city of Chicago as her campus. After being accepted into a writing program in Paris she rediscovered her passion for her first true love; writing. Paris was also Christian’s first time traveling outside of the United States and it opened her eyes to new experiences, a slower pace, and it made her question life as she understood it. Always curious, Christian discusses life, faith, and all the unexpected occurrences in between.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
About her new book to be released September 2022
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Authors Bio | Book | Authors Website
This month Motown Writers Network Features Christian Cook author of Growing in the Gray
1) Tell us about your current work
Growing in the Gray is a young adult coming of age story that takes you through the world from Krista Clark’s (the protagonist’s) point of view as she navigates a new city, starting college, and maybe being in love for the first time. All while simultaneously dealing with her anxiety, and her family going broke.
2) Name three things you had to accept and come to terms with within yourself and your writing.
I can’t control how people perceive my writing, As a writer my job is to tell a story in it’s fullness, when people read my writing they will either exercise their critical thinking skills or laugh
3) Was it easy to use Michigan as a backdrop?
Yes, I try to go back at least 2-3 times a year to ensure any details I provide are authentic. I love having the opportunity to highlight a place that either people don’t know much about or have a huge misconception of.
4) What characteristics from your teenage years did you carry into your adult life? Did you mean
to hold on to these qualities or did it happen naturally?
I have always had hope and faith that I would be successful, my hope and faith encouraged me to have the discipline to refine my talents, and most importantly I never gave up. I’ll never forget that I learned that the word perseverance meant while attending Laurus Academy and I applied it to my everyday life from there.
5) What would you like readers to walk away learning from this literary piece?
I want readers to know that experimenting and trying new things adds spice to life. The world glorifies youth, and a reason I believe that happens is during those times you are trying new things, and excited about the future you can build. The world literally seems like it has so much to offer. Before you aged and got experience you were excited about something, I want anyone older who reads this novel to keep that part of their youth with them, and hopefully reading Growing in the Gray awakens that part of them!
6)Please give aspiring authors one piece of advice.
If you want to write, WRITE! Start off with just writing your thoughts and as you gain confidence in your skills don’t be afraid to market yourself on your skills. From there, expand your network!
7)Please tell readers where they can find your work
Growing in the Gray will be available for purchase on Sept 6th, 2022 on amazon.com
Authors Bio | Book | Authors Website
About author: Christian Sandra-Elise Cook is from the suburbs of Detroit. At age 16, she graduated high school and then attended Columbia College Chicago. Here, she obtained a BA in Public Relations, and discovered her depth as a woman and a writer by taking various creative writing courses and using the city of Chicago as her campus. After being accepted into a writing program in Paris she rediscovered her passion for her first true love; writing. Paris was also Christian’s first time traveling outside of the United States and it opened her eyes to new experiences, a slower pace, and it made her question life as she understood it. Always curious, Christian discusses life, faith, and all the unexpected occurrences in between.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
About her new book to be released September 2022
Growing in the Gray is a young adult coming of age story that takes you through the world from Krista Clark’s (the protagonist’s) point of view as she navigates a new city, starting college, and maybe being in love for the first time. All while simultaneously dealing with her anxiety, and her family going broke.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
and then also join us offline at Motown Writers Network meetup
Mid Michigan Gospel Fest is an annual festival that brings families and communities together for a wholesome experience great for kids and adults alike. Every year we work hard to bring great live music, rides, games, activities, ministries and vendors for the public to enjoy. This year we are even working on an Author Alley to help promote writers! It began in Potterville, MI and will be continuing in Charlotte, MI at the Eaton County Fairgrounds August 12th-14th 2022. This is a Christian based event in which our ultimate goal is to glorify God and share the message of love and redemption with all willing to hear it!
About author: Christian Sandra-Elise Cook is from the suburbs of Detroit. At age 16, she graduated high school and then attended Columbia College Chicago. Here, she obtained a BA in Public Relations, and discovered her depth as a woman and a writer by taking various creative writing courses and using the city of Chicago as her campus. After being accepted into a writing program in Paris she rediscovered her passion for her first true love; writing. Paris was also Christian’s first time traveling outside of the United States and it opened her eyes to new experiences, a slower pace, and it made her question life as she understood it. Always curious, Christian discusses life, faith, and all the unexpected occurrences in between.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
About her new book to be released September 2022
Growing in the Gray is a young adult coming of age story that takes you through the world from Krista Clark’s (the protagonist’s) point of view as she navigates a new city, starting college, and maybe being in love for the first time. All while simultaneously dealing with her anxiety, and her family going broke.
Author’s Website for more information: https://www.craftedbychristian.com
Three books I would recommend to help you fight writers block and get you to start writing are as followed
Writing Prompts
https://amzn.to/3gV6RsE
Trope Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3rXB9Rw
Conflict Thesaurus
https://amzn.to/3H3AYIO
I found these books to be great to help with boosting my creativity efforts when I hit brick walls in my story
I hope they can help you.
by Nate Hoffelder | posted in: Author Newsletters | 1
Welcome to the latest installment in my blog post series on newsletters. In previous blog posts we have discussed why you should have one, how to get started setting up a mailing list and newsletter, how to get people to sign up, how to get readers to unsubscribe, and what to put in your newsletter.
If you have been following along at home, you should now have a growing mailing list and should be sending out newsletters on a regular basis, and now is the times to raise the question of maintenance.
To put it another way, how and when should you delete email addresses from your mailing list?
This is a perennially hot topic in marketing circles, and there are as many different opinions as there are grains of sand on a beach. Some say you should run all the email addresses in your mailing list through a validation service, and remove any addresses that raise red flags. Other experts such as David Gaughran say you should cull any email addresses which don’t open your newsletters. And of course everyone agrees you should bring your mailing list in compliance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
I am of the opinion that you should clean up your mailing list as rarely as possible. In fact, the only time I would recommend removing email addresses en masse from your mailing list is to keep from getting charged more by your mailing list provider (for example, some will charge you more per month if you have more than 1,000; 5,000; or 10,000 subscribers).
The thing is, I prefer to avoid culling my mailing list because I know that any time you cull the list, you will remove active readers by mistake. I’ve actually had readers say this to me after they stopped getting my newsletters, and I have also been culled by mistake. (One well-respected “expert” has cut me from his list twice even though I opened and read all of his newsletters.)
There are many different views on this topic, so I am going to use this post to give you both sides of each argument.
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