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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author
- Do You Have A Website?
- www.celiahayes.com
- About Me:
- I was born and brought up in a remote part of Southern California (yes, there are remote parts of SoCal!) and enlisted in the Air Force, where I served for 20 years before retiring from active duty in Texas. I have lived there ever since, and after departing a second career as an administrative/executive secretary, I turned to blogging extensively and writing historical novels.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://www.ncobrief.com
- Favorite Books:
- Rosemary Sutcliffe "Rider on a White Horse", all of G.M. Fraser's "Flashman" books, M.M. Kaye's "Shadow of the Moon", Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series.
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Independent Authors Guild
I have gotten together with a handful of other writers to brain storm some marketing strategies; all of us are either small-press or POD and totally exasperated with the current paradigm. There must be a better way for our books to reach interested readers. Without very much more ado, we formed the Independent Authors Guild, put up a website and a discussion group for interested members and p
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So Where Does it Come From?
“To Truckee’s Trail” was pretty easy – the plot and the persona were all pretty well laid out there: Wagon train, composed of such and such people, travels from Council Bluffs to Sacramento in the year of our Lord 1844 and this is what happens to them along the way. All I had to do was work out the personal traits of those involv
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A Song - "Back in the Bookworks Again!"
Well, she's back in the bookworks a'gin.
Writin' away when she kin'.
'magination's never dry,
When there's his'try there to ply,
'Cause she's back in the bookworks a'gin.
Writin' 'bout his'try once more,
Poundin' her ol' com-pu-tor
She's describin'' Truckee's Trail,
Starvin'… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2007 at 10:01am —
Well, blogging... I know what that is!
I've been at it for a while, since 2002, for a group mil-blog called Sgt. Stryker's Daily Brief... that is, everyone who wrote for it had to have been a military veteran, of the American, British, Canadian or Australian forces. The original Stryker was a wise-ass mechanic who dabbled in blogging, got tired of producing original content after a year, and then asked for contributors. He got tired and moved on, I stayed. We changed it to "The Daily Brief" an
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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