Published on July 7, 2004
Aside from obvious things like the landscape and different weather patterns, you notice a lot when you’re travelling the open road, if you’re paying attention. One of my favorite things to do is to drive through small towns, observing the people walking on the sidewalks, the children playing in the neighborhoods, and the farmers working in the hot sun. It’s fun to imagine what happened in their lives to lead them to settling in this small town, seemingly in the middle of nowhere USA with populations often under 1000, according to the the weathered highway signs.
We’ve stayed in Mantua, Ohio, Grand Haven, Michigan and Byron, Illinois since last week’s issue. You can read all about our adventures of taking our business and family on the road, driving 6400 miles in 46 days through 23 states, right here.
Next week? We’re goin’ home to Texas! I have to start brushing up on my accent so the kin folk will be able to understand me.
Hugs to all!
Angela
~Pssst! Angela’s Ghost is Calling!~
For years, Angela has been telling you about the spirits living in her old home in Maine. You can now read all about her family’s experiences and more! Read all about Real Stories of Spirit Communication: When Loved Ones Return After Crossing Over at: https://www.SpiritStories.com
Published on July 7, 2004
We recently ran a warning under WritersWeekly Whispers and Warning about an individual who owed a writer money. It wasn’t a huge sum, but enough to feed a small family for a month or so. Shortly after the warning ran, I started receiving a string of emails from this individual (I’ll call him Deadbeat Dan). The emails were poorly written, almost illegible because of the spelling errors. I couldn’t believe this person supposedly published a line of magazines. One funny thing about his emails is that he inserted a copyright statement under his letters. That made us laugh out loud. I guess he’d never heard of paraphrasing and I guess he figured we’d never be able to share his words with our readers if he copyrighted his “work.”
Published on July 7, 2004
This Week:
- Made a Sale!
- Parental Paranoia
Published on July 7, 2004
Three years ago, in London, I was feeling stuck. I had just finished a guidebook, and increasingly wanted to write about travel, but how could I write about travel if I couldn’t afford to travel? I wasn’t making enough money (from writing and temping) to keep my house, travel on research trips, return to base and write stories; I needed all my income just to survive. I became despondent; I stopped going out and started living the life of a frugal recluse. Over six months, I managed to save a few grand, and that gave me enough money to extricate myself from London. But where would I go? A friend was planning a trip to India, so I decided to join her. We got a flight ticket, London to India to Thailand to Australia. I bought a laptop; with the money left-over I calculated I could spend six months in Asia, and then, when I got to Australia, wouldn’t I be able to find some kind of menial employment?
Published on July 7, 2004
The life of a full-time writer seems so sublime. Who wouldn’t want to work in silk pajamas or jet off to New York for a power lunch with an editor? The notion was extremely tempting to me, a single mother struggling to support my family with a job I hated. But publish a novel? I probably had a better chance of becoming a supermodel. Still I dared to record my far-fetched fantasy in my journal, thinking that if I saw it on the page in black and white, it might be obtainable.
Published on July 7, 2004
This Week:
Published on June 30, 2004
We’re having a great time on our 44-day “business trip.” However, in Henderson Harbor, NY, someone pulled a knife on Frank. Read about it here:
https://www.wirelesstrips.com/archives/travel_essays/001742_06262004.php
Read more updates on our trip here: https://www.wirelesstrips.com
Hugs to all!
Angela
~Pssst! Angela’s Ghost is Calling!~
For years, Angela has been telling you about the spirits living in her old home in Maine. You can now read all about her family’s experiences and more! Read all about Real Stories of Spirit Communication: When Loved Ones Return After Crossing Over at: https://www.SpiritStories.com
Published on June 30, 2004
Authors can come up with some pretty creative reasons to convince themselves of why they’re book isn’t selling. When you know as many authors as I do (more than 800) and you see the variety of successful and not-so-successful marketing techniques used today, there really are only two excuses for poor book sales…bad marketing or just a plain old bad book.
Published on June 30, 2004
Letters will return next week.
Published on June 30, 2004
We all care about selling our books. We want to sell more. And more. So I thought it might be helpful to share something with you all this summer. I’m doing a special promotion for my new novel, THE HALO EFFECT by M.J. Rose, which hits stores this week and I’m going to keep you […]
