iUniverse published poet gets Oprah’s attention

I clicked on this article linked at the iUniverse site. Donna Wahlert, 67, published her collection, The First Pressing: Poetry of the Everyday, through iUniverse and her poetry was published in Oprah Magazine. All I have to say is KUDOS!!! Wow! Giving the rest of us self-published/POD authors something to dream about…

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Excerpt from Portraits in the Dark: A Collection of Short Stories

“Randolph.”
He calls my name. I still remember my name.
But my thoughts are receding and I’m becoming unclear of much of the detail of my life, like a crystal ball filling with soot. They’re all leaving me. The distant past was first to go—my childhood, what my school looked like, what I looked like, my family, [...]

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The Writer’s Pub

Just a quick note to check out my Newsletter: “The Writer’s Pub”. There are articles about marketing, writing, trivia and lots and lots of great links.
By the way, if you would like to contribute to my newsletter in the future, please send articles (or whatever you would like) to me by [...]

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Thoughts about fellow writers

As many of you know by now, The Writers’ Block started from a single suggestion posted at an Internet writing site. It took a lot of work to put this blog together and for what it’s worth, I think there are a great group of writers here. I haven’t read everything by all the authors [...]

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New writer joining

Hi everyone and especially to Nancy O. Greene, who invited me to join this online writers’ community. I am a novelist, journalist and screenwriter who lives in Silver Spring, MD. My two self-published young-adult novels won awards last year, including a first place in the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards for children’s/young adult.
My two [...]

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Book Fairs – Are you ready?

Imagine, if you will, an open-air market in the 1600s, where exotic spices fill your sense of smell. Hustling, shoving people crowd through the streets in search of their daily bread, fresh vegetables, and fish just caught from the sea. Vendors’ yells fill your ears, each trying to draw your attention toward their wares.
Now, change [...]

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Because size matters.

Two weekends ago I attended a fantastic aviation event. Granted, “fantastic” is a subjective term. But for a guy who has both flown and rebuilt airplanes for a living, I looked forward to this particular event for quite some time.
For one thing, the event was held in Sebring, Florida – an absolutely lovely little town that overdevelpment [...]

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Future works, thoughts about the movie Pleasantville, and other musings…

Just an update on my life right now: I’m researching Wittgenstein in hopes of finishing up Witch Hunt soon, which is a powerful novel critical of some of today’s “hostile environment” sexual “harassment” law (not quid pro quo law, which I support). I’m thinking that once I finish my research, it should only take about a month to [...]

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Gather ’round

Take a look at writer Eric D. Goodman’s profile on gather.com. He just joined a week ago and already he’s a featured author. You can find out more about him at Writeful.

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Dakota Fanning and the big deal over a fake rape

In her new movie “Hounddog,” Dakota Fanning plays a 12-year-old girl who is raped. And this is causing a big hoopla, because some people believe it is “simulated sex.”
For one thing, there is a big difference between sex and rape. Rape and child molestation are not consensual acts. For another, “Hounddog” is a movie, a [...]

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