Category: Publishing
Sunday Morning Musings: Publishing and Other Things
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
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…
Barbara Meyers, Author – August 2013 Newsletter

Check out my guest blog (Am I Having Fun Yet?) on author Tina Donahue’s web site here: http://www.tinadonahue.com/blog/ My story, “Katy’s Place” appears in the Novelists, Inc. anthology entitled I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE YOU AGAIN, now on sale in print and digital formats. Buy links are here: http://www.thestoryplant.com/i-never-thought-i-d-see-you-again.html Tomorrow…