by Yvonne Perry Having a good bio is a must for any author. You may use it in your book’s front matter in the About the Author section, or on your Web site or as a profile on social networking groups, or perhaps as part of your marketing packet. Writing…
by Pamme Boutselis Historical novelist and screenwriter Robin Maxwell believes, “If you want to write, you have to read. You have to read and you have to love reading.” When Maxwell wrote her first book, “The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn,” she had no idea what she was doing in spite…
Edie Weinstein is a professional journalist and author based in New York. While her formal education was in psychology and social work, she has been a wordsmith for as long as she can remember and discovered that writing is her true calling. She has her own blog and is the…
Margaret Miller has been writing professionally (freelance/magazine articles and corporate copywriting) since she was a senior in college. She sold her first article in 1977, long before computers. She lives in Austin, Texas and continues to write for a wide variety of national and regional publications. The first thing I…
by Geoffrey Notkin I grew up in Greater London and attended a series of strict British public schools that were very heavy on English language and literature. As a result, I had writing skills literally beaten into me. At age thirty, after gaining extensive experience as a musician, artist and…
by Geoffrey Notkin One of my early writing teachers, Ginny MacKenzie, hated any form of cliché. She would berate me any time I used one and make a face suggesting that she had just smelled something awful. She told me I was a creative person and that I needed to come…
Guy Smith is a San Francisco-based writer, songwriter and political provocateur. He is the author of four books and many op/ed pieces, some of which have appeared in publications like “The San Francisco Chronicle.” In fiction, voice matters almost as much as dialogue. Since stories relate texture (as well as plot,…
Laura DiSilverio is a professional author who has written nine books published as Laura DiSilverio, Lila Dare and Ella Barrick. Her 10th mystery, “Swift Run,” debuted in November (St. Martin’s Minotaur). She taught writing for three years at the United States Air Force Academy and now teaches four to six times…
Scott Andrew Selby is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Law School and Sweden’s Lund University, where he wrote his master’s thesis on diamonds. He is the author of a nonfiction book,“The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It” (released in September…
Vivian Kirkfield is the author of “Show Me How! Build Your Child’s Self-Esteem Through Reading, Crafting and Cooking.” In her school visits to kindergartens and in her presentations to parent/teacher groups, she shares her passion for picture books and for helping every young child become a reader and lover of…