Lynda R. Young's MAKE BELIEVE Tour

Please join me in celebrating the release of my friend,

Lynda R. Young's short story in the Make Believe Anthology

published by J. Taylor Publishing, to be released on December 3rd, 2012.

Purchase links can be found HERE.

Birthright by Lynda R. Young:
Christa can mask the pain and hide the scars, but running from a birthright is impossible.

She’s tried to escape her grief by fleeing to a small town in Florida. Much to her frustration, the locals think they recognize her even though she's never been there before. To make things worse, a man named Jack spouts outrageous theories about her.

Both spur Christa to bolt, to start fresh yet again, but there’s something about Jack that intrigues her enough to stay. The only problem? Someone else wants her to leave, and they won’t stop until she’s dead.

Blurbs from all the stories included in Make Believe can be found on the J. Taylor Publishing website HERE.

Make Believe Excerpts:

An excerpt from Lynda R Young's short story, Birthright, can be found HERE.

Excerpts from all the short stories included in Make Believe can be found on the J. Taylor Publishing website HERE. 

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A to Z Challenge: M is for Mentor

Welcome to Day 13 of the A to Z Challenge

Many bloggers have chosen a theme for the A to Z.  My pledge since becoming a blogger is to post about writing, so for this event, I will being posting about what I've learned about writing a novel.

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M is for Mentor:  a wise or trusted counselor or teacher; an influential sponsor or supporter. (Dictionary.com)

I’ve wanted to do a post on mentors for a long time.  As a neophyte writer, I’ve come to depend on a select few to advise and steer me in the right direction.  The three ladies I constantly call on are skilled writers, as well as savvy bloggers. 

They are Jami Gold, Lynda R. Young, and Julie Musil.  All three are highly informed writers who share their considerable insight and experience on their popular blogs.  They each write on topics all writers should educate themselves on, both on craft and on the business, marketing, and platform side of things.  I find every one of their posts to be informative and entertaining.  I suggest scrolling through some of their old posts.  I guarantee, you’ll learn a lot.

Who are your most trusted mentors and why?  How did you find them?  

Great Comments Award

Happy New Year once again, my friends!  Since January 4^th is the first Wednesday of the month and therefore saved for Alex Cavanaugh’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group, I thought I’d use the beginning of the week to pass along an award Alex gave me his blog last December 5th. 

It’s the Great Comments Award, given to those who drop by and comment most frequently.  Now it’s my duty to pass along this award to some of my most dedicated follower-commenters.

This was a very difficult list to whittle down as I have a great many loyal commenters, but these are the folks whose names always pop up in my comments.  Of course, Alex is included on this list, but I didn’t want to bug him since he’s already received it.    So here goes:

1.                    Lisa Regan

2.                    Al Penwasser at PenwasserPlace

3.                    Jeff O’Handley – The Doubting Writer

4.                    Joylene Nowell Butler – The Cluculz Writer

5.                    Julie Kemp Pick – The Empty Nest Insider

6.                    Carrie Butler at So You’re a Writer

7.                    Jennifer Hillier of the Serial Killer Files

8.                    LailaKnight from the Untroubled Kingdom of Laila Knight

9.                    Donna K.Weaver at Weaving a Tale or Two

10.                Peggy Eddleman – Will Write for Cookies

11.                Lynda R Young at W.I.P. It

12.                Eva Gallant at Wrestling with Retirement

I could go on and on and on…

Please check these folks out and join their armies, if you haven’t already, because they make great followers and write awesome posts. 

And come on back by on Wednesday for my Insecure Writer’s Support Group post.  For once, I won’t bitching!  Imagine that!