Updates on the Writing It Real Series 🎉

🎉Just one more month until my book birthday @vine_leaves_press for Writing It Real: Creating an Online Course for Fun and Profit! Can't wait! Preorder today at Amazon.

It's even more awesome in person! 📕🎉@vine_leaves_press That holding the first printed copies feeling: priceless. Props to my amazing cover designer @jessicabelldesign . Couldn't resist sharing this moment with all of you. Writing It Real: Crafting a Reference Book that Sells has a book birthday in April, and it's available for preorder now at Amazon.

Breaking out the Red Lipstick 😁

It’s a red-lipstick wearing kind of occasion. While this morning started out gray and sleeting and a little blah, this afternoon turned around. I finished Day 30 of NaNoWriMo and have managed to get a few pages into Draft 3.

A package arrived tonight, and my next book was inside. That holding the first tactile copy feeling: priceless! Dropping February 2022: stay tuned.

Insight into Developmental Editing, Part Two 📝☕

As an editor, it’s incredibly fulfilling to work with fellow writers as they sculpt their awesome novels and prepare for publication.

This year, I’ve had the complete joy to work with Ian Rogers of But I Also Have a Day Job and TRAM on his debut novel that drops in April 2022 (Vine Leaves Press). MFA Thesis Novel will leave you entertained, laughing, and thinking deeply about your own life’s path long after you’ve savored the final page.

Photo Courtesy of Vincentiu Solomon on Unsplash.com

Wonder what it’s like to work with a developmental editor? Ponder no longer! Ian does a stellar job exploring what developmental editing entails, what it’s like to communicate about your vision for your book with a developmental editor, and how authors and editors can bond over shared goals on behalf of making fabulous books.

Here’s the second (and latest) post about Ian’s developmental editing experience: ta-da! Be sure to check out his first post about developmental editing from June .

Also, make sure to check back on Ian’s site for wonderful reflections and interviews with working writers and at Vine Leaves Press to reserve and order your copy of MFA Thesis Novel in early 2022 as well as to peruse and purchase the many amazing Vine Leaves selections available.

Here’s to writers making it happen and bringing meaningful literature into the world! 📚🌟

Cover Reveal Time! 📚🥳

Super excited to share the covers of my next two forthcoming books for authors from my new Writing It Real Series (dropping in February and April 2022 respectively at amazing Vine Leaves Press): ta-da!

This gorgeous art was created by my super talented cover designer, writer, and publisher, Jessica Bell. She always delivers covers that take my breath away and surpass my hopes. If you self-publish and/or are in the market for cover art for your next project, I’d heartily recommend her work; contact information and more stellar covers: here and here.

Check out Jessica’s wonderful books here and here and other riveting reads by Vine Leaves Press authors here.

A Marvelous Microfiction Anthology 🤗📕

Thrilled to have my work included in this anthology of rad 50-word stories among so many awesome flash fictionists.

The book will officially drop in November by Vine Leaves Press @vine_leaves_press , with pre-ordering now at Amazon.

But this book for your writing, for your favorite writer, and/or for your fiction class or workshop--they'll love it and find inspiration for their own flashes.

My Photo Published, "Moment Series--Wish and Shadow" 😎

Thrilled to say that my photo, “Moment Series—Wish and Shadow,” was published today in the art gallery of Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.

Check out a few reflections I made about my photo as well as the work of the amazing poets, such as my dear friend Charles A. Swanson, and artists featured in this Summer 2021 Love Issue.

📸 My Photography Featured in Fatal Flaw 📸

Super excited that three of my photos have been published today as part of Fatal Flaw’s Ritual-themed Issue #4, among many talented writers and artists.

Please check out the issue as well as my film photograph (included here) as well as two digital compositions.

I used Kodak Gold 200 film on a ‘90s Canon to make this photo; I love that grainy film feeling and the way this film plays soft with light. 🤩📸

Great News: Beyond Words Literary Magazine Second Printing

So pleased that this issue of the stellar international literary journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, from last June has now gone into a second printing! 😍📸

I have photography in the June 2020 issue as well as in their current May 2021 issue.

Get your copy/subscription today @beyondwordsmagazine . Also, consider submitting your words or art.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

🌟National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Project 📸🖊

Know what’s just around the corner?

National Poetry Month. (Making April everyone’s fav month for 25 years and counting.) 😊

Know what else? I’m thrilled to say that I’ve been asked to take part in Film Shooters Collective’s rad project that pairs film photographers’ work with poets’ verse each day in April. That’s right: I’ve penned a poem based on the amazing art of a fellow photographer. Stay tuned! 📸

Be sure to check Film Shooters Collective’s Insta and website each day for your daily dose of delicious inspiration.

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Care for some sweet poetic inspiration in the meantime? Check out my book—filled with oodles of tips and prompts created with poets in mind:

Poetry Power

Now also available in the 3-book series for e-readers!

Signed copies available at: WritePath Productions, my Etsy store

✨📸 My Photo Chosen for Exhibition 📸✨

Thrilled to announce that my fine-arts photo, "Dad's Razor," was chosen for PhotoPlace Gallery's "The Poetry of the Ordinary" online gallery among the work of so many talented artists.

Check out the whole exhibition (clickety-click on the Online Gallery tab underneath the sofa-and-city-view shot ).