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Of Cow-Pies and Trolls “It is a widely known fact—or, at least, a widely held belief—that negative criticism is more entertaining to read than enthusiastic […]
Author: Diane_Michaels
#amwriting
I #amwriting. Contrary to what I thought I’d be #writing after #selfpublishing #EllentheHarpist, I’m barely getting enough time in on book #2 (the number sign, not […]
Resurrecting My Murdered Darlings
Kill Your Darlings “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending […]
Greetings, 10,000 New Twitter Followers!
Or, How Setting Up an Amazon Giveaway Nearly Grew My Twitter Following Run a giveaway on Amazon, they said. Make people follow you on Twitter […]
Picking Favorites
You know what scares me most about participating in author Q&A’s as I promote my novel “Ellen the Harpist?” Being asked to name my favorite, […]
Gratitude for My Author Platform
Connecting to One Reader My friend Kelly, proprietor of the Michigan Harp Center, hosted my first Ellen the Harpist book event at her booth at […]
Paperback, Part Deux
Late July 3rd, I returned home from hanging out with harpists at the American Harp Society national conference in Atlanta. On top of a stack […]
Weddings in the (not so) Great Outdoors
We’re experiencing a heat wave in New Jersey. Thankfully, all of my gigs this weekend are indoors, unlike poor Ellen. In Ellen the Harpist, the brides […]
Paperback
That’s pretty much all I have to say: paperback. It was a long week of copying. pasting, adjusting the formatting, and then battling the gremlins […]
Leap of Faith
Two days ago, I made my credit card do some heavy lifting. The purchase was for something I won’t be able to enjoy for several […]