The Color of Nothing
What my mother didn’t know was how often I wished she’d done as he wanted. I wish I wasn’t even here. I try hard not to be. But she doesn’t appreciate my efforts.
Category: Publishing
WHY AUTHORS NEED EDITORS
I learned I shouldn’t be publishing ANYTHING that isn’t professionally edited. Not if I want to be the best that it can be, that is.
Sunday Morning Musings: Publishing and Other Things
Cover for FANTASY MAN which is scheduled for release February 2016 from Samhain Publishing. I have a new addiction: Mary’s Gone Crackers. I blame Starbucks for putting them in their Bistro Box. The crackers are quite expensive. Fifty cents an ounce via Amazon is the least expensive price I found.…
Turn Off Your Internal Critic and Write!
Sometimes you don’t know what you need until it appears in front of you. Such is the case with a creativity coach. In the fall of 2013, an offer came across a writer’s loop for free sessions from Denise Agnew. She had to work with a certain number of clients…
New Year's Goals
I hate the idea of New Year’s Resolutions They’re so…resolute! It’s all or nothing. If I don’t completely achieve them I’ve completely failed. But I like the idea of goals. I can work toward them and even if I don’t make it all the way, I probably accomplished something. I don’t…
MISCONCEIVE
As usual, it has taken me forever to make a book available to my legions of fans. Thank you for your patience. Writing and publishing are not only still in the experimental stages as far as my career goes, they are a mystery to me. This time I am trying…
Barbara Meyers Author Newsletter – April 2014
You might wonder why my newsletters are so infrequent. It’s because I don’t have any writing news to report. No new books being released. No contracts signed. Right now all I do is write and rewrite. A couple of my fans keep asking when the next book in the Grinding…
Picky Reader Disappointed
First on my list of disappointments were some of my recent library book selections. I could only read two out of five. One was a Lee Child Jack Reacher novel. The other was Betrayal by John Patrick Hunter. The rejected ones were, in no particular order: an award winning (literary?)…
I Don't Know Him But I Think I Love Him
I never Tweet. Mostly because I don’t understand Twitter. I haven’t read my Dummies for Twitter book even though I’ve had it for a year. Besides, who has the time? Between writing fiction, song lyrics, the occasional poem, keeping up with e-mail, working a day job, life in general, and…
The One
The One – Chapter One Spending the summer pressed up against a ten really messed with my self-esteem. Try it sometime. Tens think they’re perfect, like they’re worth so much more than me and others like me. It’s the story of my life. I’ve been used. Abused. Forgotten. Ignored. I…
