While the world gloats over the latest vicious Trump attack by Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury”, whose contents he presently reinforces through numerous world-wide television appearances, apart from the questionable truthfulness of its contents, I ask myself the question: WHAT DRIVES THE MAN? As I skim through the sparce sources available on this question, […]
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After watching an interview with Emma Ayres, now Eddie Ayres, very likeable ex-ABC Classic FM breakfast host, I realize that we, the Christian community in general, live in a condemnation bubble regarding the whole LGBT community. Sobering to know: this issue has now become the new normal in our society! We are asked by
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Posted on December 4, 2016 Writing seems to be in my DNA. My father apparently loved to jot down his thoughts on pen and paper (sadly, due to my parents’ divorce, I never knew him). I probably wrote my first short story at the ripe old age of nine, as a Christmas present for my then
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Posted on December 6, 2016 Hi dear readers and followers of my blogs. As I am in the painstaking process of plowing through the truly bewildering offers presented to self-publishing authors and painfully aware of the many pitfalls to avoid in that process, here is an article which I too will have to study carefully. I
As I decided to publish with CreateSpace (Amazon), which is placed in America and which only has printing facilities in the U.S., now that it comes to ordering my finished books, reality has hit! The postage costs are simply horrific! Whereas before, my research as a complete self-publishing novice focussed on HOW TO PUBLISH, i.e.
The time has arrived: distributing my finished books! Read More »
I have been working on the publication of my poetry collection for two years now. Some of my friends seem to be wondering if these books will ever see the light of day. Some may even have queried (based on some of their questions) whether I am not using this project to maybe secretely indulge
Part of building my author platform is answering some challenging questions: Not so much WHAT I write, which is quite easy to answer but rather WHY? Ouch! That requires a bit of thinking! I believe that at heart, I am a teacher. I want to share my life experience, to possibly save others from making the
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“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” Junot Díaz, Professor of Writing,
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The world is being constantly bombarded by non-stop babble; people who love to hear the sound of their own voices, opinions, their brand of “humour” etc. etc. This can be the same in the written format. Babble, babble babble. Who doesn’t get tired of it? Why do we do it in the first place? How
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A while ago I was moaning about tax forms, hitting walls to do with the submission process to my self publisher, not to mention merging hundreds of individual files (poems) into one book, dramas with headers and footers and how to “switch them off” for empty pages, only to mention a few of the challenges
Last draft stage, yeah! Read More »
