I’ve been getting notices that my audience is growing. Cool! So I go to my stories, I have many posted here, and yet? No likes, no thumbs up, no comments. So…… Why do people follow people here? Have a good weekend, Medium readers, writers, marketers. Marla aka #writersmama

READERS, Would You Read More? Exploring Generational Family Dysfunction: A Synopsis Adultery is pervasive in our culture yet often reduced to cliché. Isn’t the adulterer always the bad guy? Kate Winslet’s 2006 Academy Award nominated performance in Little Children takes on this stigma in her role as Sarah, a stay-at-home…

WIN/WIN: Remember Writers, Win/Win Each year at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, I moderate the panel on platform building. Per our usual, I fielded lots of questions presented to our panel and when I wrapped up the session, I forgot to mention what I believe is among the most critical points a writer in…

Episode #2 Dr Mary Hill-Wagner was a journalist and teacher long before she became a published author. In this interview Mary discusses promotion of her memoir and love letter to her mother. When we begin our publishing life later, we have an advantage of utilizing life tools mastered in our other life that we can apply to our writing life. Mary discusses this in our interview. To contact Dr Hill Wagner for speaking engagements et al, click here.

AUTHORS & BOOK PROMOTION 21st Century Style Episode #1 I launched this 15 minute ZOOM rooted author interview show to help authors promote their books AND to offer writers on the road to publishing their own stories/books the chance to listen to ideas authors have implemented to expand their presence out here in cyberspace. Why? Because not…

Authors, here’s an opportunity to pop your book up above all the book selling noise out here by adding an author interview to your…

Why is that in today’s popular culture, this crime and its perp collect so much more press than the kid who killed 26 kindergarteners & teachers at Sandyhook or all those other crazed souls who have massacred our people, right up to the last massacre that happened recently. Or was…

Marketers know something about selling to writers-aim at the low hanging fruit, the gullible among us. When self publishing became a ‘thing,’ many out here decided to try their hand at writing. After all, they’d had an idea they believed was ‘best selling’ and lo & behold! here comes this…

A new workshop I will conduct at SCWC’s Feb 17–19, 2023 to address ALL the choices writers now have to get their our published. what path should you consider? Depends on your goals…and your story telling abilities…and THAT’s the truth! Join me on FEB 19th in San Diego, CA. Link to the conference www.writersconference.com