By Liesa Malik Three seconds is all you get. Three seconds to make the difference between a sale and a pass on your book. No matter how much time you as an author have put into your novel, or how carefully your work has been edited, artist Deirdre Wait of High Pines Creative knows you…
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Goals or Genocide? You decide.
By Aaron Ritchey January, 2015, and ‘tis the season to set goals. I’m a poor goal-setter because I set too many goals. I have completely unrealistic expectations, and when I don’t achieve my goals I sulk and contemplate genocide. Go big or go home…that’s what I say. Either I’m successful or humanity dies! But all…
What’s Your Plan for 2015?
Time is not linear for me. It expands and shrinks according to its own irrational whims, and if I don’t pay attention I’ll suddenly look at a calendar and it will be November and I won’t have moved any closer to my ultimate writing career goals.
Enough with the resolutions. It’s time for a revolution.
By Terri Benson I’ve been reading blogs and articles, seeing TV advertisements, and generally being inundated by the need for New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight. Go back to school. Start a new job. Everyone must strive to be better. Because clearly, I’m not as good as I should be, according to “them.” Well, I’ve had…
Those D—- Workshop Proposals!
By Pamela Nowak The call for workshop proposals for the 2015 Colorado Gold Conference came out earlier this month, spurring my usual under-the-breath comments about preparing them. Workshop proposal forms force us to think and organize without knowing whether the effort will net results. It’s the reason we hate to fill them out, especially when they…