Lisa Tener
Book Writing Coach
In preparing for my presentation on Building Your Online Platform at URI’s Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, I’ve been looking for good examples of authors who use their Facebook page effectively or who have created great YouTube book trailers and other author videos. Well, that could take a great deal of research time, but not…
Writing memoir with Richard Hoffman Each June, I look forward to the Ocean State Summer Writing Conference sponsored by the University of Rhode Island–both as a presenter and a participant. I especially enjoy the first two days of Advanced Workshops–always with great writing teachers. My first year, I took a memoir workshop with Richard Hoffman–not…
I don’t remember seeing an ad pop up (and darken the rest of my screen!) when I click on a link from outside the Huff Po to read an article on the Huff Po. And I don’t remember having an video ad pop up when I click on my first headline. Maybe a minor annoyance,…
Oprah’s interviews with James Frey and the recent article in Salon about his first interview with Oprah drew intense emotions on both sides of the issue. Some say memoir is fiction anyway–who can really remember honestly exactly what happened in one’s life? So what’s a little tinkering with truth? Others say James Frey is ruining…
This is the second time Joshua Home Edwards has facilitated the technical details for my Bring Your Book to Life Program teleseminar series. The first time around he told me the classes inspired him and that some day he hoped to write a book. Second time around, he started thinking about really writing that book…
