As a strategic storyteller, author and blogger, I always get a thrill when I find creative people who get the power of storytelling.  So, when I had the opportunity

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      Adam Mansbach and Chris Baty (right) at the Crossroads Writers Conference Saturday.   Coming off this weekend’s Crossroads Writers Conference in Macon, Georgia, I feel a renewed

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Today, The Writing Well is delighted to feature Sandra Beckwith, a former national award-winning publicist who now teaches authors how to be their own book publicists. Sandra combines her publicity

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  Sixty-eight years ago this month Joseph Stalin began the expulsion and murder of East German people in what has now become known as the Ethnic German Genocide. In fact,

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A week from Friday I will join other writers in Macon, Georgia, for the 2012 Crossroads Writers Conference. I went last year and was wowed by the quality of the

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  Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in THE HUNGER GAMES. Photo credit: Murray Close   Watching “The Hunger Games” on DVD this weekend made me think where I was one week

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A Conversation with the First Ladies of Fantasy

    Standing L-R, Nancy Knight, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Mercedes Lackey. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, sitting. Four groundbreaking New York Times’ bestselling authors – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Mercedes

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I am still in recovery mode coming off the high of DragonCon 2012, which drew more than 60,000 SF and fantasy fans this weekend to downtown Atlanta.While the “people watching”

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    Adrian Cropley, ABC. Photo: Leland Holder Adrian Cropley, ABC, fresh from serving the past year as chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) executive board, talked

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  Behind the Governor’s Palace, home of the Virginia colony’s royal and post colonial governors. This weekend my family and I returned from a fun-filled week in Colonial Williamsburg and

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