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Lessons in Overthinking, Undermining and Second-Guessing

By Barb Meyers May 6, 2023Animal, Barbara Meyers, editor, Independent Publishing, Publishing, revisions, Self-publishing, writers, Writing, Writing Books, Writing Romance

Lessons in Overthinking, Undermining and Second-Guessing It’s how many books later? Twenty? And as I review the formatted eBook version I ask myself, Is this just stupid? Will readers think…

Covid 19 Vaccine: A Bonding Experience?

By Barb Meyers May 1, 2021Barbara Meyers, Life, Rants, Social Commentary, Uncategorized2 Comments

Is this what we’re doing now? Did you have the vaccine? Moderna or Pfizer? J & J? Sore arm? Side affects? How? When? Where?

What book in the women’s fiction genre should I absolutely read? (Me!)

By Barb Meyers June 9, 2020Barbara Meyers, bestsellers, Good Books, If You Knew, Reading

What book in the women’s fiction genre should I absolutely read? “I’m always on the lookout for new authors and new writing voices

Can A Daughter Go Home Again?

By Barb Meyers March 8, 2020Barbara Meyers, beach read, dads, daughters, If You Knew, parents, Reading, Romance Novels, Uncategorized, Writing3 Comments

Joy left home at 18 with a boy her minister father didn’t approve of. Joy and Mike marry in Vegas and arrive in LA. Shortly thereafter Joy discovers she’s pregnant and before she gives birth Mike is killed in a motorcycle accident. Broke, pregnant and widowed, Joy calls home. Her father, Art, says, “You’ve made your bed. Now lie in it.” He hangs up on her.

IF YOU DARE – Work in Progress – Excerpt

By Barb Meyers August 9, 2018Barbara Meyers, books, If You Dare, If You Knew, Red Bud Series, Writing, Writing Books

The Red Bud series is shaping up, starting with Book One, IF YOU KNEW, to be released late 2018. IF YOU DARE is the story of Doug Winston's chance at…

Rewriting Training Tommy

By Barb Meyers April 5, 2018Barbara Meyers, First Chapters, revisions, Romance Novels, Romantic Comedy, Writing, Writing Romance2 Comments

Hot guy has breached the neutral zone, shouted her internal alarm system.

What About This Hair?

By Barb Meyers December 10, 2017Barbara Meyers, Uncategorized

In the end very few people really care what you do with your own life. Maybe for five seconds they care, but beyond that they are too wrapped up in their own lives.

Dithering

By Barb Meyers May 18, 2017Barbara Meyers, editors, Publishing

“The world is not against you. Nor is the world on your side. The world just doesn’t care.” –Thomas Hardy

I’m Trying to Sell BOOKS Here!

By Barb Meyers February 6, 2017Barbara Meyers, books, Uncategorized, Writing

Is $10 per book unreasonable? That’s equivalent to two Venti white mochas at Starbucks. A movie in the theatre costs almost as much. But these senior citizens probably aren’t going to movies. Or buying white mochas.