The Vancouver Public Library is hosting the first Indie Author Day on October 8. I’ll be one of the authors. My first public outing as a published author! The planned event gives member of the public an opportunity to meet and connect with the writing community. I’ll be there along with fellow Mountain Maven author Donna Barker, author […]
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Midway Through My Kindle Scout Campaign: Some Thoughts About Its Worth I’ve just passed the midway point through my 30 day Kindle Scout campaign for my book Reconcilable Differences and am checking in with my results and experience thus far. If you didn’t catch my last post about my path to publishing, at the end I
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My Long Path to Publishing Aptitude and Ambition I can still remember like it was yesterday the evening almost eleven years ago that I sat beside my husband in bed, doing aptitude tests and reading books like What Colour Is My Parachute? It wasn’t the first time I was trying to decide what I wanted
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Education is More Important than Ever to Prepare for Future Jobs Continuing from Monday’s post: Jeremy Rifkin, American economic and social theorist, presents the argument that an emerging zero-marginal-cost sharing economy will make itself felt most strongly in the labour market, where “new employment opportunities lie in the collaborative commons in fields that tend to
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Digital Age Workers and Jobs of the Future As a mother and aunt of a few young digital-age millennials, I often ponder the particular challenges these emerging adults face in our overwhelming and rapidly changing world, and how they will fare in the future. In the last century, post-war changes to society, including
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COMMITMENT PHOBIA Right off the top, National Novel Writing Month sounds like a really bad idea for a person as commitment phobic as me. For readers who aren’t familiar, NaNoWriMo is “National Novel Writing Month, shortened as NaNoWriMo (na-noh-ry-moh), … “an annual internet-based creative writing project that takes place every November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to
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WHERE HAS BUSINESS ETIQUETTE GONE? BY-GONE DAYS Those of you who read Regency fiction will know what this term means: The cut direct. For those that don’t, it refers to the social snub, a complete diss. Which was done very rarely only under extreme circumstances when a person was in the wrong place
Every once in a while I read a book, see a movie, or gaze on a work of art that just rocks my world and reminds me why I’m alive and who I am. CONVERGENCE I had one of those moments recently while reading Susanna Kearsley’s latest novel, The Firebird. Something about the convergence of
After seven long weeks in a small rural island community over the summer, the past week was spent on a quick return trip to the city, ostensibly to attend a friend’s wedding, but also to take care of a hectic round of shopping and errands in preparation for the start of the school year. The experience
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