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September 22, 2009
- I've been AWOL from blogging for a week, but it has been for the best of all possible reasons.Last weekend I was at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Saw all kinds of kidlit people like, Mo Willems and Chris Myers.A couple of my blog readers showed up armed with life-sustaining popcorn for me, like Rebecca from Austin and these girls,, who just totally made my whole day. As promised, I signed ...
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September 18, 2009
- I'm posting this book review on an historical novel by C.W. Gortner because I think The Last Queen is a great read and highlights the difficulties women have had throughout history attempting to be taken seriously whether they are royalty or not. Gortner will be honored this October 15th at an event for National Reading Group Month by Women's National Book Association, San Francisco ...
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September 13, 2009
- WRITE DAMMIT! If anyone other than a writer had written the cliché “The pen is mightier than the sword.” then every writer could take solace in their own heroic literary endeavors. Unfortunately, a writer did write that, so we have to search for inspiration all the more. Let me pose a question. Why are we so confounded with whether or not we are; able to write, skilled at storytelling, ...
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September 13, 2009
- “I’m not as good at this as I should be!” “Why can’t I write like…” There are always going to be innumerable frustration when you are writing. If you’re a half-descent writer then you will inevitably think that you have a lot of room for improvement. If you are past that stage, my congratulations, but know this…it won’t last forever. The lime light is only on for fifteen ...
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September 13, 2009
- Many people have the gift of writing but lack the skills to fine-tune their work. That’s where professional copywriting, editing and proofreading come in. If your desire is to see your work published, but you don’t have the time or the ability to check the spelling, punctuation and grammar, you need help. Maybe you don’t have the time to network, market or blog your books or stories. ...
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September 1, 2009
- On September 4th, I'll be featured on Perpetual Prose. I was interviewed by Michael Weir.Perpetual Prose is an online community for writers, editors and book lovers.Check it out on September 4th!http://perpetualprose.com/author-spotlight/cheryl-kaye-tardif-interview~Cheryl
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August 31, 2009
- As an author your email signature is a fantastic place to distinguish yourself and stand-out from the crowd of emails that your recipients receive. In fact, it's an excellent way to unobtrusively market your book to all your email recipients. Let's do the math about the size of this marketing opportunity ... if you send an average of 10 emails a day you've got over 300 opportunities a month to ...
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August 25, 2009
- I’m going to start today’s blog with a just a little piece blowing my own trumpet.Yesterday my book “Across the Pond” reached the BIG 100 reviews status on AmazonI am so pleased that that many people have taken time not only to read my book, but to review it as well.Any way I said I would try and help people out with free software, useful links etc. There are plenty around these are ...
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August 19, 2009
- A year ago, we were here. And last blog, we were here, admiring famous illustrators and editors who we met/stalked at the SCBWI Summer Conference. "But what about the famous authors," you ask. Well, yes, there were gazillions of them everywhere. And they all were thinking the exact same thing . . . "Where's Peepy?" We'll begin with Holly Black author of the Spiderwick ...
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August 19, 2009
- The other day, on the spur of the moment (procrastinating really), I googled an author whose work I admire. His name is KP Bath, and he wrote a middle-grade book that I think is terrific, The Secret of Castle Cant. By terrific, I mean that I have it on my desk, which is where I put books that are so good that I study them periodically to see how they're constructed. Castle Cant has a kind of ...
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