• My View of The Creek

    My View of The Creek

    We have a room  on the south side of the house we call, “The Sun Room”. During the day, there is plenty of sunlight filtering through the four picture windows,  I do most of my writing in this place. The thing I most like about writing here is that during those short periods that I…

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: INTRODUCING my NAUGHTY CHIMPS warming up to visit those authors who have not yet sent me their Guest Author or other articles for my blog  My thanks to author Ali Isaac for pointing me to their activities 🙂

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  • Originally posted on chrismcmullen: Background image from ShutterStock. ADVERTISE ON AMAZON There is a new opportunity available to advertise your book on Amazon. https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2DJUTY13KIH2C How would you like to advertise your book directly on Amazon.com? That would be cool, huh? What if you could do this on a modest budget? Even better! Well, now you…

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: Author Interview: The Wolf’s Moon by Patrick Jones, The Linden Chronicles: Book 1 I had a couple of hours in between the next hurried crowd of people that wanted a signed copy of “The Wolf’s Moon.” All I wanted was to rest my hand and have…

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  • . . Google+ is the only Social Media site where your posts, comments and likes are directly transferred to their search engines. That’s not the only via Great News from Google+ | Savvy Book Writers.

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  • A Day at The Library

                Years ago when my son was moving from kindergarten to the first grade there was a Summer Reading Program. The program covered all students in St. Louis, Missouri. If a student read five books over the summer, the reader received a certificate for an ice cream cone from the…

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  • I now live in the Ozarks.  It’s a great house in a great area of Missouri. In past blogs I wrote on the people here that I am proud and honored to be allowed to call my friends and neighbors. This blog, though, is about my cabin even further into the mountains. It is a…

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  • Originally posted on Lockie's Lectern: I am so grateful to everyone who came to my Launch Party on January 15th, and celebrated with me in my great fortune to present my new book to you all. The Legend Returns is a story about a boy and his love of and respect for nature. When Ryan…

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  • Have you ever wondered why wolves howl at the moon? There is so much folklore surrounding the mystery of the wolf.  Even a phase of the moon was named the Wolf Moon by the Native Americans.  Listen to the answer from Chris on BBC: Zoo la la Earth Unplugged TV!

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  • Excellent advice from Doris-Maria Heilmann with 111Publishing (Savvy Book Writers) about having a clear goal for your writing career. . . Do you have a clear goal for your writing career – and a plan how to reach your “dream job” – becoming a successful full-time writer? Or do you via Top 10 Commands for…

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