Here is a transcript of an interview I did with bloggingauthors.com --a fantastic place to gather information about books on any topic.
In 1956, Piera Domenica Burzio and her grandparents left their village of Pranzalito, near Torino in Italy, to begin a new life in America. They made their journey on the last voyage of the Andrea Doria. Pierette and her grandparents survived the collision, when the Swedish liner Stockholm rammed the Italian luxury liner.Pierette continued to pursue her love of foreign languages by teaching high school
French and Spanish in the Farmington Public Schools, near Detroit. In the course of her twenty-six-year teaching career, she was recognized as Michigan Foreign Language Teacher of the Year (1994-95) by the Michigan Foreign Language Association. Upon her retirement, she was inducted into the Farmington Teachers' Hall of Fame.
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Jamieson Wolf works with Dorothy and he has created a video trailer for my book.
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The family settled in Detroit, Michigan, where Pierette attended Wayne State University. She received a liberal arts degree, with a teaching certificate in French, Spanish, and Social Studies. She continued her education by doing graduate work in Paris and Angers, France.
orchestras and chamber groups. She also has traveled extensively to foreign lands, with an annual trek to Italy, where half of her family resides.
Well, during this week's teleclass of Writers on Call, we'll be going over the homework assignment and everyone's marketing plan for the week.
This 3-part interview will give you tips on editing, publishing and marketing your book. It is worth your time to listen and learn. The weekly podcast, Writers in the Sky, is available on itunes.com and may be accessed on Yvonne’s blog http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com/ .
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The award consists of $100 cash prize and is sponsored by Yvonne Perry, and Write On! Creative Writing Services. Specific Criteria: Must have original, imaginative and creative use of words that create vivid mental pictures of scenes and characters.
In Conduct in Question, when Richard Crawford, Harry’s elegant and refined senior partner, drops dead in the office, Harry is free to make his own mistakes. Circumstance calls Harry to outwit a brilliant serial killer, dubbed by the media as the Florist—a sadistic murderer who carves floral designs on the naked flesh of his young, female victims. His sadism is heightened by his obsession with carving beautiful line drawings—to rival the artistry of the painter Henri Matisse. And yet, paradoxically, this man struggles to experience a sense of compassion. As well, Harry is nearly suckered into a money-laundering scam, from which he must escape.
As she teeters between madness and lucidity, Harry tries to make sense of Norma’s paradoxical claims. Is she a helpless victim or the perpetrator of the fraud? To beat these malevolent forces, Harry has to call upon powers and abilities he did not know he possessed—keen intelligence, intuition and moral conviction. But he does not have to accomplish all this alone. Lucky for him, with his wife gone, real love from the beautiful Natasha helps him on his journey and waits for him at the end of the trilogy. But don’t worry! The hunt for the money ends in Venice.Enter to win an autographed copy of A Trial of One, the third book in THE OSGOODE TRILOGY by Mary E. Martin
There are three books in THE OSGOODE TRILOGY:
They’re all about murder, fraud and love—a new angle in the mystery/suspense genre. Harry Jenkins is a most unlikely hero. The protagonist of all three novels is a middle-aged lawyer, who feels with dead certainty that life is passing him by. Trapped under his senior partner’s thumb and stuck in a dead marriage, he is desperate for change—almost any change. And don’t worry; the novels in the Osgoode Trilogy can be read in any order.
In Conduct in Question, when Richard Crawford, Harry’s elegant and refined senior partner, drops dead in the office, Harry is free to make his own mistakes. Circumstance calls Harry to outwit a brilliant serial killer, dubbed by the media as the Florist—a sadistic murderer who carves floral designs on the naked flesh of his young, female victims. His sadism is heightened by his obsession with carving beautiful line drawings—to rival the artistry of the painter Henri Matisse. And yet, paradoxically, this man struggles to experience a sense of compassion. As well, Harry is nearly suckered into a money-laundering scam, from which he must escape.
In Final Paradox and A Trial of One, Harry, relentlessly pursued by the mob, must unravel a complex fraud upon a fraud to find a huge sum of money for his elderly client, Norma Dinnick. As she teeters between madness and lucidity, Harry tries to make sense of Norma’s paradoxical claims. Is she a helpless victim or the perpetrator of the fraud? To beat these malevolent forces, Harry has to call upon powers and abilities he did not know he possessed—keen intelligence, intuition and moral conviction. But he does not have to accomplish all this alone. Lucky for him, with his wife gone, real love from the beautiful Natasha helps him on his journey and waits for him at the end of the trilogy. But don’t worry! The hunt for the money ends in Venice.
HOW TO WIN THE JUNE CONTEST? Answer this question:
In which novel, Conduct in Question or Final Paradox, is someone shot in open court?
You’ll find out by visiting www.maryemartin.com where you’ll see a slideshow of the murder at Osgoode Hall. While you are there, sample some chapters of Conduct in Question and Final Paradox.
Also, to get you ready for A Trial of One, Yvonne Perry will be sending a progressive reading of chapter one via email to those who subscribe to the blog http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com .
story that revolved around a deep friendship between two boys. After establishing that basic human premise he began to explore the idea of isolation, personal failure and the possibility of redemption.
A new horror fiction magazine will debut January 1, 2008.
Paula B, host of The Writing Show would like to let everyone know about a writing contest.
Want to get published but don’t know how your novel measures up? Enter The Writing Show First Chapter Contest and get 750 words of feedback from publishing industry pros plus a week’s free access to Literary Market Place Online, a searchable database of the North American book publishing industry.
Enter by May 15, 2007 and pay only $35. After that until June 15, 2007, the entry fee is $45. Winners will be announced on November 15, 2007.
Entries will be judged on:
Rules, instructions for entering, and more detail can be found at The Writing Show Web site. The contest is sponsored by The Writing Show and Literary Market Place.
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Conscious Discussions Talk Radio Show
Dae and Lillian Brummet, authors of the book, TRASH TALK, are thrilled to announce their talk radio show called “Conscious Discussions”. Listeners are invited view the website and click on the Test session to hear what the show will be about. Anyone interested in appearing on the 1/2 hour show as a guest is welcome to contact the Brummet’s through one of their websites (see below). The show will be recorded live and airs every Tuesday at 10 am PST.
RADIO SHOW DESCRIPTION: Discussions about the environment, the value of the individual and the world of writing.
HOSTS: Lillian and Dave Brummet, authors of Trash Talk (waste reduction), Towards Understanding (non-fiction poetry) & Purple Snowflake Marketing (book promotion).
KEYTAGS: author, book, book promotion, education, energy, environment, family, interview, lifestyle, money, promotion, recycle, reuse, talk show, trash, trash talk, waste, water, writing, zero waste.
LOCATION: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions
TIME: EVERY TUESDAY @ 10:00 a.m. PST - (First show airs on May 8th)
AUTHORS WEBSITES:http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit
http://www.myspace.com/canadianauthor
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Jump Start Your Career as a Freelance Writer
Ae you trying to start your career as a freelance writer, or do you want to take your writing career to the next level?
Then here’s a great program for you. It’s called Writers on Call—a subscription based weekly teleclass for writers.
Every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Central Time, fulltime freelance writers and hosts, Suzanne Lieurance and Yvonne Perry, offer a 55-minute group tele-coaching session. And you don’t need any special equipment to take part in these weekly sessions - just a telephone. The classes are recorded so you don’t miss any vital information if you cannot make the call. If you want to participate in the weekly conference classes, go to http://www.yvonneperry.net/Writersoncall.htm and subscribe to Writers on Call.
If you want to make money on a program that helps freelance writers, go to http://www.the-working-writers-coach.blogspot.com and get your affiliate link for Writers on Call. On the Working Writer’s Coach blog, scroll down until you see “affiliates - sign in here” in the right column of the homepage. Once you sign in, you should be able to grab your personal affiliate link to the program. However, if you have any problems, email Suzanne at suzanne@workingwriterscoach.com.
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Writer’s Resources
See www.Blueagle.com to find online columnists.
www.Newsdirectory.com
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Donna Latvis of Bridgewater, MA is available for book readings/signings of her book released May (2006) “Defend God’s Word.” Here’s a note from Donna:
