Writers Unbound

This story shows us how writers can unexpectedly grow a career and change their part of the world. The video gives you clues and look at how Mollie Katzen turned notes from napkins to a lifetime of writing, lecturing, and online publishing.

Catch her link above for recipes. Well here it is: http://www.molliekatzen.com/recipes/recipe.php?recipe=cherry_plum_soup

My curiousity was awakened and then I went to find out how I knew her: Moosewood Cookbook! An old fav given to me whilst I was a younger vegetarian. And again m any years later. She has published a lot more…go visit her and see what she is up to…

Bio:Since 2003, Ms. Katzen has been a consultant to Harvard University Dining Services, and co-creator of their new Food Literacy Project. She is also a culinary advisor to the University of California at Berkeley, a nationally syndicated columnist through the Chicago Tribune, and a contributing editor for Shape Magazine.

Ms. Katzen’s company, Mollie Katzen Designs, provides creative menu designs for conferences and personal celebrations, and customized original Mollie Katzen artwork for collectors. Her newest project is ÒGet Cooking,Ó a multimedia series of books and videos for beginning cooks, premiering in the fall of 2009.
•For the Press: On-line Presskit

•And some questions she’s often asked… Get to the lin provide so you can see those questions!

Mary,

Hi there!

Here’s a list of some places to find writing related work,
hopefully some new ones you didn’t know about here:

http://www.demandstudios.com

http://www.textbroker.com
http://www.freelancejobsforall.com
http://www.allfreelancewriting.com
http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com
http://www.hireaghostwriter.com
http://aboutfreelancewriting.com/jobs/currentjobs.htm
http://www.poewar.com/jobs-by-category/jobs/
http://www.webprojobs.com/
http://www.artypapers.com/jobpile/
http://www.problogger.net

Good luck and I wish you so much success!
As always - please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions
or comments.

Debbie
info@makemoneyfromwriting.com

Eclasses, one on one coaching & mentoring:
www.makemoneyfromwriting.com

Writing Community/ Social networking:
www.makemoneyfromwriting.ning.com/

Kudos Trust, PO Box 1321, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217, AUSTRALIA

Listen or watch the above video. Then click a few links and you can read some of this book. Here you have the opportunity to read and learn from a compassionate, timely writer. Another fine find from one of our loal thrift stores. In researching more about the book, I know I have the joy of having found another writer mentor friend. Enjoy. Mary

http://books.google.com/books?id=vhN7xMdGGOQC&dq=heal+thyself+santorelli&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Pl5W2wNaQM&sig=XaG3GnSLJzNN6i92nb-5d1qhxZA&hl=en&ei=r5NmSoPqDJKqswPJ-JHbDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
Book overview
Today we are experiencing extraordinary technological advances in the diagnosis and treatment of illness while at the same time learning to take more responsibility for our own health and well-being. In this book, Saki Santorelli, director of the nationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic, explores the ancient roots of medicine, and shows us how to introduce mindfulness into the crucible of the healing relationship. His approach revolutionizes the dynamics between the patient and the practitioner. In describing the classes at the clinic and the transformation that takes place in this alchemical process, he offers insights and effective methods for cultivating mindfulness in our everyday lives. As he reveals the inner landscape of his own life as a health care professional and we join him and those with whom he works on this journey of human suffering and courage, we become aware of and honor what is darkest and brightest within each one of us.

http://books.google.com/books?id=vhN7xMdGGOQC&dq=heal+thyself+santorelli&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Introduction:

Saki Santorelli, Ed.D., MA
Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
Medicine
Preventive and Behavioral Medicine

Education
Lesley University, MA, 1983
University of Massachusetts (Amherst) EdD, 1992
On Going Projects/Grants:
Principal Investigator, Mindfulness-Based Adolescents Program. Globe Foundation, September 2007- January 2009
Chair, 7th annual international scientific conference – Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness into Medicine, Health Care, and Society
Oversight of Oasis – An Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Innovation (within the Center for Mindfulness) (CME)
Mindful Leadership: Corporate Leadership Education Programs and Services (within Center for Mindfulness)

Teaching
Academic: Physician, Patient, and Society (PPS I); Mindfulness for Medical Students; Individual mentoring of students interested in mind-body medicine and mindfulness; medical and surgical residents

Professional Education and Training: International CME Professional Education and training;
Seminars, keynote addresses, presentations, and workshops in US and abroad (yearly)

Service
Executive Director, UMMS Center for Mindfulness in Medicine,Health Care, and Society; Director, Stress Reduction Clinic; Founding member and UMMS representative to Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (41 US and Canadian medical schools);

Member: Senior Advisory Group

His persistency, doing little tasks day after day has created a great business. His faith and self confidence adds to his productivity. Wherever you are in your writing career, these attributes also can build your foundation for success.

I love writing my blogs, because it creates my platform for keeping words flowing and the brain working. I could use more time to finish or start other creative projects. However, I believe each step I take moves me to my greater goals. Each post I publish affims the value of my work.

I could build on these ideas and create short books or guides. I may touch the heart or mind of a reader, and help that person begin their writing.

They talk about everything about publishing, writers events, new books….then came the children’s book club. African American CHildren books are the focus. Grits Kids….

This is a powerful interview. You can learn how to make your site grow. You can have lots of resources. Kids can blog. Teachers new resources. Just give this a listen. Fascinating.

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WNgprlTW

Join WITS owner Yvonne Perry and full time online book marketer Marlive Harris on Writers in the Sky Podcast today as they discuss the following:

The G.R.I.T.S. Online Reading Club, a leading online reading and book promotion community for adult readers and writers on New Year’s Day in 2000.

The award winning G.R.I.T.S. Kidz Book Club, an online book club for kids, parents, and adult care-givers of children who desire to discuss and learn more about African American and other multicultural literature written for young people.

The GRITS COM Literary Service designed to meet the unique Web publicity needs of authors and self-publishers.

On the Air With Marlive Harris, a collection of lively book talk podcast programs for people who love to read! Authors will learn how they can be a guest on Marlive’s radio show and glean ideas for marketing books online.

Click here to listen to the interview . . .

http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/
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Beat the heat this summer . . .

READ!

Okay, it’s summer time and the reading . . . is easy!! Well, easy for The GRITS Online Reading Club because July/August are the months we pack up those fav reads and head for the beach, go on vacation, or just enjoy this time of year with family and friends.
So we will see you back online this Fall!

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Harlem Book Fair 2009
July 17-19, 2009
West 135th Street
5th Avenue to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.

Like a Canvas

The canvas stands bare
waiting to be given life.

Calming pastel colors,
soft clouds floating in
a happy sky of blue.

Silver moon leading
stars though the night,
hope for tomorrow,

or a dark, raging sea,
tossing waves about,
no peace to find.

Life is like a canvas.
You the artist hold the brush.

Gail Livesay’s passion is writing poetry but she also writes plays, fiction and non-fiction short stories and is currently revising her autobiography about growing up with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Gail has been published by Poetry as Prayer, Appalachian Women Speak, Breath and Shadow, a selection of her work was used as part of a production by New Mummers Group, USAdeepsouth, Oncology Times Applachian Women’s Journal, Women on Earth, Appalachian Connection, Helium, Writers in the Sky E-zine, and LaChance publishing.

Part of the Promise

I was her friend before she was his wife.
They had a little baby; they had a great life.
We used to go line-dancing; we played golf.
We used to go to movies; we hung out.

Part of her promise to him was not running with me.
But sometimes here was where she wanted to be.

Then he got a little problem,
getting stoned and getting high.
We had to get him in re-hab. At least we had to try.
I cashed a pay check; handed the money to him.
Take it, dude. Do you want to owe me or them?

Part of his promise was to understand her and me.
He wanted to be well, he wanted to be clean.

It worked; he’s better. One day at a time.
Some days are good; some, not-so; mostly, he’s fine.
We can start to stop worrying;
we’ll get it back some day.
When I see their baby smile, I know we’re okay.

Part of his promise to me was being back in their life.
He knows I’ll always be her friend;
he knows she’ll always be his wife.

Janice Bossing
Joelton, Tennessee

I Read the Last Page First

I was lost
Couldn’t find my way
Then I opened the Good Book
I read the last page first
and knew I would be found.

No need to fret and worry
The answer was there
for all to see.
I read the last page first
and knew God would help me.

So when you are unsure
which way to turn,
take the short cut back home.
It’s on the last page
and he’ll be there for you, too!

Irene Brodsky from Poetry Unplugged

Like Drunken Cowboys

There’s a place inside my head where hurt never filters in,
A place to heal, where I can know I’m my own best friend,
Sometimes find it easier than facing reality,
Like drunken cowboys living without a dream.

Call me crazy; call me a fool, for shutting out the world.
I just need time to contemplate the way my life’s unfurled.
Wouldn’t want to take it out on everyone around
Like drunken cowboys tearing up the town.

I don’t want to think about forever,
Trying hard to make it through the storm.
Toughening my feelings into leather
Til it just doesn’t matter anymore.

Take a step back to a time when
Life was a free-for-all,
Where disagreements could always be settled
in a barroom brawl
Where consequences and concerns were not a high priority
Like drunken cowboys living wild and free.

Dennis S Martin
Web site: www.iwritesome.com
Blog: www.iwrtiesome.blogspot.com

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Gayle Plato (born August 2, 1964) is an American columnist/blogger, who writes political analysis featured at Townhall.com. Plato may also be found at www.sonoranalliance.com, www.politicomafioso.com, www.Arizona.newsplatoon.com with contributions at parcbench.com, BlogNetnews.com, the Arizona Republic, The Sonoran News, AzNet News, and the Foothills Focus. Plato holds a Masters in Education - Counseling from Northern Arizona University. She is a certified social studies teacher, and counselor with over 20 years experience working with children and families. Her experience includes work as a school counselor in Arizona and Washington school districts, private practice, and a secondary level teacher of U.S. Government, Economics, and History.

May, 2009Ms. Plato develops a point of view using a prose style to offer opinion and analysis citing pop culture and classic literature. Reference to The Simpsons or South Park are highlighted in turn with political newsmakers of the Middle East like Benjamin Netanyahu or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Recent controversy over her editorial regarding U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama crystallized as the media covered Hillary Clinton’s reference to Robert Kennedy being assassinated on the campaign trail: {{quote| “Do any remember Le Morte d’Arthur? Sir Thomas Malory did not pull punches. Arthur’s reign goes down in defeat, death–to Avalon, legend taking back the boy-king to live another day. Everyone betrays Arthur. I wince when I see the John F. Kennedy comparisons for Barack Obama. Running for President can be inherently dangerous; just ask Bobby Kennedy’s kids..” [1]

KKNT960 [2] consistently ranks Ms. Plato’s political blog, The Right Woman, in the Top Ten Blogs of Arizona[3]. Recent articles noted as in the Townhall.com national rankings of What’s Hot.

Arizona Political Heat editorial staff recently wrote about the author:

“Gayle Plato, who blogs for both Sonoran Alliance and townhall.com, has a great article refuting the Catholic Sun’s recent piece which implied that Catholics are opposed to laws against illegal immigration. The Catholic Sun refused to print her letter to the editor responding to its article. Probably because Gayle Plato made some compelling points.” [4]

Plato instrumentally placed Senator John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin into the Internet blogging dialogue as a potential choice, months prior to the selection. Plato coined the phrase, ‘Sarah Palin is the Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the 21st century’, referring to the original feminist and suffrage leader[2]

The noted Top Conservatives on Twitter report has listed Plato and her writing as part of the #TCOT- a national shortlist of the top conservative activists in the nation. See top TCOTReport blogs: [5] [6] Referenced article at WSJ.COM:[7]

Smart Girl Politics [3]also included Plato as one of its Southwestern original 100 members: [8]
Gayle Plato is NOT the designer of the game Scenarios; another person with same name.

[edit] External links
[4]Smart Girl Politics Page
[5] Wall Street Journal Online Linking #1
[6] Wall Street Journal Online Linking #2
[7] Conservative Feminism Website
The Right Woman, Gayle Plato’s blog
The Sonoran News
The Foothills Focus
KKNT
The Catholic Sun
[8] Contributor at Sonoranalliance.com
[9]Contributor at Arizona News Platoon
[10]CCUSD watch comments
[11] #TCOTReport Top Conservatives on Twitter List and Newsfeed
[12]

Born April 16, 1962 (1962-04-16) (age 47)
Bloomington, Indiana
Occupation editor
Nationality United States
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Hypertext fiction
Literary movement Hard science fiction

Official website

Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic.

Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Work
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Life
Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer.[1] She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American studies.[2]

[edit] Work
Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies,[3] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.[4] She co-founded The New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988 and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. It has been nominated (as of 2007) for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine every year of its existence, fifteen times under her co-editorship.[5]

Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s.[6] She was part of the Global Connection Project, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic using Google Earth and other tools following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.[7]

[edit] Bibliography
Anthologies
The Architecture of Fear[8] (1987) with Peter D. Pautz – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Spirits of Christmas (1989) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy, ISBN 0-81255-159-1
Walls of Fear (1990), Avon Books, ISBN 0-38070-789-6 – a World Fantasy Award nominee
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) with David G. Hartwell, ISBN 0-312-85509-5
The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell, Orb books, ISBN 0-31287-636-X
The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Books, ISBN 0-76530-617-4
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) with David G. Hartwell
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1994) with David G. Hartwell
Anthology Series
Year’s Best Fantasy 1 through 7 (2001–2007) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins 2001–2005, Tachyon Publications 2006–2007)
Year’s Best SF 7, Year’s Best SF 8, Year’s Best SF 9, Year’s Best SF 10, Year’s Best SF 11, Year’s Best SF 12, Year’s Best SF 13, Year’s Best SF 14 (2002–2009) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins)
Short Fiction
“Forbidden Knowledge” in Mathenauts,[9] ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)
“The End of Everything” in Asimov’s Science Fiction October 1990
In Small & Large Pieces by Kathryn Cramer, in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems (1994). (a work of hypertext dark fantasy)
“Disextinction” in Nature Magazine (2001)
“Sandcastles: a Dystopia” in Nature Magazine (2005)
Essays
How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera with David G. Hartwell, SFRevu August 2003
Cramer has also written a number of essays published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. She is a contributor to the Encarta article on science fiction and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James.[10] Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example “Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow” (NYRSF August 1988) in Visions of Wonder, ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell (Tor 1996).