writing – Page 2 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

July 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Gossip column meets romance meets crime fiction…and it’s funny! Click on the picture!

5.0 out of 5 stars July 3, 2014 By Ellen Keefe – See all my reviews This review is from: It’s In His Kiss (Paperback) I haven’t read a murder mystery in a very long time because I don’t enjoy the genre but this book was fun and satiric, almost…

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May 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The writing is a cool breeze on warm day, i.e., I love it, the publishing…

The publishing, self-publishing, digital-whatsie is more of a blood, sweat and tears thing. I’m not complaining (hint, a clear indication that one IS complaining) but getting a book out there in the world is a hard business. It makes me squeamish, all the promoting I’ve been doing, but this…

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May 12, 2014 / Vickie Lester

My first review, and it’s aces! Thank you, Elyse! Blogging Buddies Rock! FiftyFourandAHalf

Fess up. It’s your fantasy and mine. You’ve not only finished your book, but it was published. It wasn’t a best seller, but literary types – like us writer/bloggers – read it. Of course you don’t make any money, but writers are supposed to struggle… via It’s In His Kiss…

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May 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and wiser Vickie Lester and a young Joan Crawford

Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an ASSHOLE, blah-blah-blah, does anyone see my glasses anywhere… Furthermore poppets, I get queasy handing out advice, but the thing about writing, more…

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April 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The End, or Something – by Kristopher Jansma, for the NYTimes.com

An excerpt from a piece written by Kristopher Jansma, author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, on finishing—writing the end—of a novel: Kurt Vonnegut put it best in a lecture to M.F.A. students at the University of Iowa: “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t…

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February 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

How am I? Inquire at your peril.

Now listen, I don’t know if it’s hormones, or the bulletin board covered with post-its I just constructed this weekend charting out my time between now and the release date of the book, June 1st, but DAMN poppets! There’s a lot to be done. I’m beginning to see why some…

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February 15, 2014 / Vickie Lester

What is a mark of beauty, endurance, courage, and transformation? A scar.

Babies, you know the drill. Click on the purple letters below. *** how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart. *** *** how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart. ***

February 7, 2014 / Vickie Lester

My boyfriend, Jeff Bezos, over at Amazon just sent me such a treat!

It’s this luscious gem of a book my friend wrote… Oh, dear! We can do better than that. Re-light! Roll ’em! Okay, I’d never make it in the camera department because clearly I didn’t rack focus properly. But I know a GREAT book when I see one — and I…

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February 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I have been visited by a celestial creature, and we have something to show you! A book teaser…

*** Please click on the lovely red letters… which will whisk you to exciting places: Book 1 | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD. All things glorious, thanks to: how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart.

February 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tag: writing

Gossip column meets romance meets crime fiction…and it’s funny! Click on the picture!

My first review, and it’s aces! Thank you, Elyse! Blogging Buddies Rock! FiftyFourandAHalf

Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and wiser Vickie Lester and a young Joan Crawford

The End, or Something – by Kristopher Jansma, for the NYTimes.com

How am I? Inquire at your peril.

What is a mark of beauty, endurance, courage, and transformation? A scar.

My boyfriend, Jeff Bezos, over at Amazon just sent me such a treat!

I have been visited by a celestial creature, and we have something to show you! A book teaser…

In a meeting, back soon, things to sort out…