Tag: Writing
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HOUNDED Wins Gold in 2025 FAPA Contest
The 2025 Annual Florida Authors and Publishers Association (FAPA) President’s Book Awards recognized Hounded as a gold medal winner in the Middle-Grade (Children/Young Adult) Fiction Category. Hounded, a contemporary coming-of-age novel inspired by the legendary Irish warrior Cú Chulainn, is illustrated by William E. Green III. The FAPA President’s Book Awards Program recognizes book publishing…
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Got a Book Inside You?
What Are the Odds of Getting It Published? Writer and friend Deborah Garafano found the “Odds of Getting Published” by Dean Talbot an interesting read. Originally published on February 2, 2023, some of the statistics reported in the article may have changed, but the odds of an author getting his or her work traditionally published…
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Hounded into a Story
As published in the Gazette, a publication of the Gulf Coast Writers Association, January 2025 Imagine a Celtic Karate Kid in a Percy Jackson adventure. The result is Hounded, a contemporary coming-of-age novel inspired by the legendary Irish warrior, hero, and demigod Cú Chulainn [koo KULL-an]. Written for a middle-grade audience, Hounded tells the story…
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Between the Heat and the Bugs
First Place, Non-Fiction, Gulf Coast Writers Association 2024 Contest Attend the GCWA meeting September 21, at 10 a.m., EDT, via Zoom to hear me—and other finalists—read our award-winning entries. Click here on September 20 for Zoom link. Rather than slam the front door, I huff away from it, hoping that an evening walk will clear…
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Stick with the Winners
Writers write because we are driven. Other than fulfilling an inherent need, however, we also have goals. Maybe it’s to earn money, polish our craft, or share a story. Sometimes it’s to find other writers who get it, or simply to tell the world that we are writers. I’m a strong advocate of using writing…
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Ghosts of Clotheslines Past
You rarely know the last time you’ve done something for the last time. It’s only after you look back on it and say, oh, that was the last time. Like the last time you went roller skating. Or baked cookies with your grandmother. Or pinned sheets to a clothesline. The last time I did that…