Writers Tricks of the Trade Volume 5, Issue 6

M S .J ,E Morgan’s Corner Morgan’s Corner ORGAN T AMES DITOR END OF THE YEAR WRAP UP Morgan St. James, Editor Editor BUY BUY Another year of such excellent articles by our regular columnists and guests. I always say you get the best information from people who are actively working in the field. We are the ones who are experiencing the challenges and successes just about every day. Cont’d At the next end page… of October I headed down to Los Angeles to give workshops at the “Memories Are Made of This” Genre LA Conference presented by West Coast Writers Conferences. I gave two well attended workshops - Lots of very good comments afterwards. I’ve been invited to be one of the instructors for the Henderson Library District’s Writers Retreat at Lake Las Vegas NV on February 28, 2016, and will be giving a 3 hour workshop on memoirs. I’ve had lots of experience with several types of memoirs, written for other people and myself. They encompass a traditional memoir such as La Bella Mafia and Can We Come and Laugh, Too?, memoir as fiction retaining about 90% reality—Confessions of a Cougar, and from 25%-50% reality like Ripoff and Bumping Off Fat Vinny, and Betrayed, pure fiction inspired by reality. See, there are so many ways to use those experiences that have been living in your head. I’m currently working on the fascinating true story mentioned in Morgan’s Corner in the last issue, so check out the Life Story feature this month for a peek at what part of it is about. AUDIO SAMPLE BUY AUDIO BOOK SAMPLE BUY And then there is the series that was the start of my transitioning from writing newspaper articles and magazine articles to books— the Silver Sisters Mysteries series. On the November 11 Writers Tricks of the Trade radio show on Blog Talk Radio we did a whole show about what you need to know about free Kindle promotions based upon the successful free promotion I did for A CORPSE IN THE SOUP from November 4-8. Lots of facts and figures, plus what I discovered and learned, and the amount of work I had to put into making it into the Top Free 100 and winding up with nearly 4,000 downloads. You can listen to the podcast by clicking the link above. BUY Speaking of Silver Sisters Mysteries, when I work on a book that is intense like one of the True Crime memoirs, I really have to also work on something funny. So my co-author for the series, my WRITERS’ TRICKS OF THE TRADE PAGE 1 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 BUY

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