Good news! We’ve completed the mechanical licensing phase for the music used in the upcoming audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”. Now, onward into the production phase! For those interested, the phases in creating and producing your own audiobook are: 1) creative phase: recording, editing, fileswapping, decisionmaking, “notes” back and…
Those of you who went to Sunday School will recognize my play on words with the beattitudes (be-attitudes). Coming back from such a sea-change trip, I wanted to count some blessings I received on home ground in this post. In another post, I’ll count blessings footloose and abroad. 1) Send-off Dinner. Before I left, Doreen…
Click here to read about how “Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis,” our latest book release, is being used as a community project. Yvonne Perry’s Writers in the Sky explains it pretty well. POD = Print on Demand
INTERNET RADIO At PIVR click on the March 31, 2008 archive recording where my name and my book’s title appears. March 31, 2008 Janet Elaine Smith PIVR (Passionate Internet Voices Radio) “Marketing for Fun and Profit spoke with me and I read my poem “Crocus.” (Which you can read on the sidebar of Riehlife under…
Sing along, now, everybody, all together: “Getting to know you, Getting to feel free and easy When I am with you, Getting to know what to say” That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in. Poinsetta, December-child’s flower DECEMBER…
Yvonne Perry of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services asked me to send her a poem for her February newsletter. Click here to read the entire newsletter. I sent an excerpt from WINDOW FRAME originally published in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and dedicated to my mother Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson (January 4, 1916-May 1,…
Writers in the Sky, “a 3-Fold, Production (Blog, Podcast and Newsletter) filled with information about writing, publishing and book publicity” has the gracious and competent Yvonne Perry at the helm of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing and Editing Services. Velda Brotherton, author, “Fly with the Mourning Dove” “Yvonne has uploaded another show to Writers…
Yvonne Perry, that whirling dervish of a writer-editor-word-choreographor-woman has posted an interview with me about the publication of my debut poetry collection “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.” Go to Writers in the Sky (TM) (A blog, newsletter and podcast for the craft and business of writing, publishing and book marketing with tons of tips for freelance…
Blogging Authors Alethea Eason, author of children’s book, HUNGRY Susan Gallacher-Turner, Susan’s art and words Janet Muirhead Hill, author and publisher Brenda Johima, Creative Nudge Jane Kirkpatrick Lit Lovers, a well-read online community Love of Place Hal Manogue, live an ordinary life in a non-ordinary way Outpost Earth, dynamic worldwide blogging network Gwyn Ramsey Susan…
Click here to read Erwin A. Thompson Western Series book review. Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series Erwin A. Thompson ISBN: 0-595-40228-3 Publisher: iUniverse $17.95 US Reviewer: Gordon Randall Buy on “Cattle Country and Back Trail” on Amazon by clicking here. Randall begins his review by saying….”Turns out that…