New Opportunity, Last Post The New Year is a good time to reassess our priorities. I’ve decided it’s now time for me to make a change and I’m going to stop writing this blog. Today is my last post! I’ve come to a point where I feel I really need to focus my energy on finishing the final edit of […]
Have you #Read My Two favorite #Books from 2015?
December 14, 2015 By
I haven’t read as many books as I’d like this year, but there are two that clearly stand out for me as memorable reads of 2015. Fittingly for the 100th anniversary, they are both set in and around WWI. #Book 1: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain This book is strictly speaking a memoir, but it […]
Winners of The Creative Zone #Coloring Book & Free #Coloring Pages
December 7, 2015 By
Congratulations ! The winners of The Creative Zone Coloring Book Giveaway are: 1. D.G. Kaye 2. Jan Twissel 3. Barbara Lynne Ross 4. Andrea Spengler 5. Angela Smith 6. Stephanie L Woohoo! Free #Coloring Book Pages!! As a thank you to all the people who entered, here are 3 more Free Pages from The Creative Zone I hope […]
New Adult #Coloring Book Giveaway: The Creative Zone
November 30, 2015 By
3 Key Points Creatives Can Learn from #NaNoWriMo
November 9, 2015 By
November is #NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month, where thousands of people all over the world write a novel of 50,000w in 30 days. Insane you say? Why put so much pressure on yourself? I’ve not done NaNoWriMo myself, but I’ve recently been wondering what other creatives and entrepreneurs can learn from the discipline of […]
How Can You Better Manage Change?
October 26, 2015 By
As Fall is finally upon us, I’ve been thinking recently about the change in seasons. When I lived in England, although I loved the Fall colors, I was always filled with dread at the thought of winter – bitterly cold days, getting dark at 4 pm and some days when it was so dull you […]
6 Steps to Start Your #Publishing Company & Printing Books
October 12, 2015 By
Have you ever wanted to have a book in print, or your own publishing company? With the self publishing revolution of the past decade, it’s now possible. This summer, I was bitten by the bug (or should I say book!) and took a slight diversion from historical fiction into the art world – though many of […]
Lack of fREADom Sucks…No More Banned #Books
September 28, 2015 By
21st Centuryville Sept.27th -Oct 3rd 2015 is Banned Books Week and this year I’ve been lucky to have an interview with senior librarian of 21stCenturyville, Ms. Viva Libriani. Ms.Libriani will be seen this year leading the march with her trademark chant Lack of fREADdom sucks…No More banned books! But she was not always a champion for this […]
Muse Media: Change and Junot Diaz
August 24, 2015 By
Muse Media: Change and Junot Diaz #Muse Media is a series of simple posts, looking for our muse by mixing prose with other media. If this was in the form of a Haiku with an image, it might be called a Haiga. For the moment, let’s enjoy the prose of some wonderful authors. “She would be a new person, she […]
Why Was Evelyn Waugh “Apalled” By His Own Work?
August 10, 2015 By
This is a reblog of one of Robert Bruce’s posts from his fantastic website 101Books.net which is the best book site on the web in my opinion. Why Was Evelyn Waugh “Apalled” By His Own Work? by Robert on May 7, 2015 The critics love Brideshead Revisited. As you know, it’s on the Time list–that’s why I’m reading […]
