September, 2006
News/Events
Anything is possible, if you really believe.
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Do you remember what you
were doing on 9/11 when the planes hit the World Trade Center? I was driving to
work.
I remember that evening all
I did was watch TV. (Yes, me, actually turn on the TV and watched for hours.)
Outside was like a ghost town. I didn't see a single person, yet my son wanted
to play outside. Out on the sidewalk he was drawing with chalk, and I watched
him through my patio door while I tuned in to CNN.
Since it was getting dark, I walked outside to get my son, and there was just a dead silence that surrounded the area. Still, not a soul to be seen. No one coming home, no one leaving their apartments, no one on their patios or balconies, and no cars venturing into or leaving the parking lot.
I
helped my son pick up the chalk and then suddenly gunshots echoed off of the two
buildings. Some crazy person decided to blow off fireworks, but within the
dead silence it sounded like gunfire. I may have screamed, I truly don't
remember. But what I do remember, I remember my son's eyes, the fear. I was
startled too, but not like he was and then he wailed. He cried so loudly that it
echoed throughout the courtyard. That was my evening of September 11, 2001.
Watch & Listen in September
TV Show
Rosemarie and Jim Durkin In My Dreams were interviewed for a segment of Mike Kara Presents, which will air every Tuesday in September at 9:00 p.m. on Channel 19. Click Here to see if you can watch the show on Comcast Cable. Click Here for Mike Kara Presents website.
To Read the Press Release Click Here
To Read the Press Release with PR Web Click Here
To Read the Press Release with the Suburban Life Click Here
The Downers Grove Reporter and the
Downers Grove Sun and about 20 other websites have picked up the Press Release as well. Please visit my Press
Release Page. 
Upcoming Radio Interviews
September 6th Listen Here to the Rebroadcast of Be the Star You Are!
Upcoming Interviews Scheduled for September (Coming Soon)
Upcoming Interviews Scheduled for January, 2007
It is always a privilege to work with Jim Durkin, Lillian Bjorseth, Josslyn Christmas, and Karon Gibson. It so happens that Josslyn won an ad in the DuPage Woman Newspaper and shared her winnings with the Authors Marketing Group. Karon surprised us all by being on the front cover. For the ad, Lillian and Josslyn worked on the wording while I did the collage of books. The books were randomly chosen from the AMG website and include: Well, you can just see for yourself. On September 1st and for eight straight weeks you can pick up the DuPage Woman Newspaper in 3,000 different locations or to see the add click here.
Book Reviews
THANK YOU! THANK
YOU! THANK YOU!!
To Read the Press Release with PR Web Click Here
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Gotta Write Network's Denise Fleischer gave 4 1/2 Explosions
3
Stars still isn't that bad.
Thank you to Marie Cassidy, The
Magic Basement for telling me about Library Journal in which this
organization does reviews before your book is published. Gives me an idea for The
Years Between.
Marie’s book, The Magic Basement is a beautifully designed book on contemporary art history, in which at the time when she began to write it she took classes in the basement of the Art Institute Museum.
The Last Book I Read
This
is Jenna Petersen's first book, a historical romance, and WOW what an author!
What a book! There is romance in
practically every page. It's exactly what I was looking for to release some of
the tension in the back of my head. And drown away my worries. Jenna was able to
grab my attention on the very first page. I usually can't get into a book until the
second chapter.
The cover is absolutely stunning as you can see. Dominick is hot! And Kathryn is
beautiful! Jenna doesn't use words that the
average person doesn't understand. Another amazing book by an amazing author. I
absolutely loved Scandalous and I think I'm going to go read it again. Those
love scenes are sizzling!
Actually, I just purchased Jenna's second novel From London with Love. I can't wait to start reading.
To purchase Falling Roses or any book on Amazon, please use my affiliate link. I'm quite broke.
For Authors
The Authors Marketing Group
Our next meeting is Tuesday, September 26th
at Shanahan’s (formerly the Corner Clubhouse). It is located in a strip in the
SE Corner of 75th and Woodward Avenue in Woodridge. Networking time begins at
6:45 (pm) and the regular meeting will begin at 7 (pm).
I’ve been posting messages to my Amazon.com profile page. Click Here
Have
you checked out my Den??
Click Here
Google Book Search (Coming Soon) For all you authors Google Book Search takes a very long time to get into. I write them and ask them when is it coming? They tell me that it’s coming soon…..
New Stuff
SFBookcase.com
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Click on the Recommend
Button to Recommend Me.
Writers.net - View
my new Writers- Published page for Writers,
Editors, Publishers, and Agents to view.
Edible
Paint & Introducing Katie have been
published on Bitbooks.com Please click on the links and rate both bits. Edible
Paint is a chapter that was removed from Falling Roses, however will be
added into Years Between and Introducing Katie is a sneak preview from
Years as well.
Visit
my Edit Red Page Click Here
I've
been added to the A-Z Author List on Romance Junkies Click Here
I can't call it Linkage, I guess I can call it Link-a-dink. My Link-a-dink page has a whole bunch of different link-a-dinks. Please let me know that you took one, so I can link you.
Slinkage
Coming in October....
AL coming soon......
A Webmaster Secret
You know that little icon in the browser. I have a Rose on mine. It also appears on the tab. And it should also appear if you bookmark the page. Anyway, after you download a "Freeware or Shareware" icon from somewhere, upload it, and it's best if you save it as favicon.ico and then stick this code in the <head> section of your pages. That means every single page in your website so that it will appear on all pages.
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www. /favicon.ico">
That's all there is to it.
For Free Graphics and Java Scripts check out my Linkage page.
On September 18th Rosemarie Piemonte Falling Roses Official Website is #1 on the Yahoo Search Engine when entering Falling Roses.
Demystifying Writers’ Demons©
One by One by Joan Upton Hall
Pluralizing compound
nouns
• Hyphenated terms - Pluralize these by adding s to the main noun:
brothers-in-law, commanders-in-chief, courts-martial,
editors-in-chief, knights-errant,
rights-of-way,
sergeants-at-arms, men-of-war (example of irregular plural)
•
Terms with hyphen dropped - Pluralize these likewise by adding s to the main noun: battles royal, heirs
presumptive, maids of honor, notaries public, poets laureate, consuls general.
Memory tip: In
subjects where the French dominated international relationships during the
Middle Ages (law, politics, religion, heraldry), their phrases, as Garner says,
“were adopted wholesale, syntax and all” (adjectives following nouns).
•
Disguised nouns - Pluralize by adding s
at the end of the word for all compounds ending in ful.: cupfuls, mouthfuls, handfuls, lapfuls, platefuls, glassfuls,
tubfuls.
But
not if full is a separate word:
Five trucks full of garbage drove away, and we cheered with hearts full of
relief and lungs full of clean air.
Do demons bedevil your writing? Similar, confusing words? Grammar, punctuation, or capitalization rules? “The Demystifier” will clear up the mystery (primary reference unless otherwise noted: Garner, Bryan A. Dictionary of Modern American Usage. N.Y.: Oxford University Press). Address questions and comments to freelance editor, Joan Upton Hall, PO Box 179, Hutto, TX 78634, or email: jmuHall@aol.com. More problems like the one above are demystified in the booklet, 50 Writers’ Tips. Find a few of them at “books, etc.” on website: www.JoanUptonHall.com.
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