November 2011 Blog Posts (11)

Querying with PixApple? Really?

 

Yes, you read correctly. I have always subscribed to the dictum that familiarity breeds contempt (more often than not). So, with that in mind, I've decided to take a novel (pun intended) approach to querying a few agents regarding my recent novel (eBook)…

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GREETINGS: Words of William S .Peters Sr. aka just Bill :"As we all are aware, World Healing and World Peace is a dynamic that affects every single Human Being on this Planet. At Inner Child we have initiated this effort to not only celebrate Poetry, but to elevate our Global Consciousness. Our hopes and focus through this Poetry Contest is to etch into the annals of History a…

GREETINGS: Words of William S .Peters Sr. aka just Bill :"As we all are aware, World Healing and World Peace is a dynamic that affects every single Human Being on this Planet. At Inner Child we have initiated this effort to not only celebrate Poetry, but to elevate our Global Consciousness. Our hopes and focus through this Poetry Contest is to etch into the annals of History a…

Unfortunately this is what black businesses endure at the hands of other blacks. No where do they denigrate other ethnic businesses because it is the blackman mindset in this expectation that other races are suppose to have a business but if your business is black owned then let this the comment below bear witness that I don't make this up.



OCTOBER 15, 2011

"Certain people always portend concern for the culture and inevitably end up…

Veterans Day remembers brother Milton L. Olive. U.S. Army, private first class, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism--at the cost of his own life--above and beyond the call of duty, on this day.

 

On October 22, 1965, Olive, a member of Company B,…

Get People to Flock to Your Creative Business Blog

You’ve created a blog to get more website traffic. Yet, people are not flocking to your website the way you had hoped. In fact, as a creative business leader or solopreneur, you might have spent the last two to three months watching profits dwindle, especially if you hired a writer to create blog posts for you. It’s time to…

Thanks, for the support! I love bouncing between ATL and DC. I want to bring NYC into the mix. My goal is to build enthusiasm for all our publications. I've been "good" busy the last few days. Responses have been good for the book signing.  More information about obtaining AFROCyberspace via the publisher (22nd Century Press) will be posted here and at http://www.afrocyberspace.com . Next summer, will be a blast!

Everyone has a story to tell. Most writers will never be picked up by the big publishing houses. But, when writers place their dream into the hands of an unsavory character, it could mean disaster. For me, it was disaster... financial

disaster. However, I refused to let a crook kill my dream. I self-published my debut novel WHEN NEVER COMES AGAIN under my own label... DND Publishing. DND is an acronym for Dreams Never Die.

I am Vicky Burns, also known as Victoria…

I submitted an article to an editor and he called me to complain that it just didn't grab his attention like my past submissions. "It's too reserved...too safe...too bland."

"Well doggone it! What do you want?"

"This isn't what I expected from you. To be quite honest Mizzez, it just doesn't have any character."

Before I knew it I replied "Well...since you are an authority on no character and ambiguous…