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- February – romance
- March – editing/revision
- April – children’s/young adult
- May – Memoir Month
- June – July – Book Cover Month
- August – Humor
- September – Writing Habits and Hygiene
- October – still and forever horror/dark fiction
- November – NaNoWriMo topics The Muse vs the Shoulder Vulture
- December – Goals/Planning/Dreams are Goals with Deadlines (could be closed 1 or 2 days depending on Christmas and New Year days)
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Horror
Loren Rhoads
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. It’s a full-color hard cover encyclopedia of cemeteries around the world, looking at everything from statuary to landscaping to famous people (like Edgar Allan Poe) to ghost stories.
Loren gave a lecture at this year’s StokerCon about vampires, ghosts, and the devil in graveyards. She is writing a column about cemeteries for the Horror Writers Association’s newsletter and has written cemetery columns for Gothic Beauty and Gothic.Net. She writes a blog about graveyards as vacation destinations at CemeteryTravel.com.
Loren writes fiction, too. One of her stories appears in this year’s Best New Horror.
Prompts and Word Sprints Night
The Chatroom will be closed until the first Wednesday of the New Year.
During this time, website maintenance will be going on. The site will remain up but may change unexpectedly.
I can be contacted at sally@writerschatroom.com
10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book
A children’s picture book may seem simple, but creating a brilliant one is no easy task. How do you make yours smart, engaging, and fun — rather than clichéd, saccharine, and didactic?
“A picture book is a marriage of words and pictures,” describes Santopolo. “The most successful illustrations are the ones that take a story to another level. They don’t just illustrate the words. They add something else to them.”
Emerian Rich is returning to our chat room.
BOOK RELEASE PARTY! This Thursday Night – Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. — Bucket O’ Blood Books & Records in Chicago is hosting the official “Book Release” Party for my new novel THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY! The book will not actually be in stores until the following week, on October 18, but Bucket O’ Blood will have Hardcover and Paperback copies available! I’ll be doing a reading from the novel, and bringing some of my lead character’s favorite beverage for any takers (PBR!) Please click on the event page below and let me know if you can make it!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1801261006658798/
Closed for the Holidays and a little website house cleaning.
Closed for the Holidays and a little website house cleaning.
Mini Guide: How to Get Legitimate Amazon Reviews for Your Books
Most of us have been there. Acquiring reviews is the bane of the fledgling indie author’s existence. I struggled with it for years; hell, I only cracked the code in 2016, after heading down the review rabbit hole hard.
Mini Guide: How to Get Legitimate Amazon Reviews for Your Books