Well, I got excited there for a minute. The day following my Keynote address at the conference in Beverly Hills, my wife took the kids to Disneyland while I worked on some writing. I took a long lunch break, however, to walk around Downtown Disney, the shopping and restaurant district which doesn’t require any admission fee, though you do have to clear security. So walking down the street I spied this sign and thought, “Wowhoo!…
Left to Right: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Stewart L. Tubbs, The Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership and former Dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University; Dr. Turan Senguder, Conference Chair and CEO The Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge; and Dr. Robert Runté, Keynote speaker; the International Business & Economics Research Conference, Beverly Hills Hilton, Los Angeles, June 2-5, 2010. Five Rivers Editor and university professor Robert Runte, was one of…
We’re very pleased to announce the book launch for Nate Hendley’s Motivate to Create: a guide for writers, and Al Capone: Chicago’s King of Crime, Saturday, August 7, 2010, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Chapter’s World’s Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, Toronto, ON M5G 1C9. In Motivate to Create, veteran freelance writer Nate Hendley explains how to start up or step-up your writing career.Straight-forward advice and commentary on a largely unexplored topic.Motivation is the…
Lorina Stephens will be appearing at Indigo, Milton Crossroads, 1180 Steeles Avenue East, Milton, ON, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 19, 2010. Saturday’s appearance is part of the spring/summer tour for Lorina’s latest novel, From Mountains of Ice. View Larger Map
I really never thought I’d succumb to this, to the detestable rules and protocols that gird the publishing world to the point of encumbrance and ritual. But here I am, amazed there are so many unprofessional people out there hawking their writing like desperate merchants at a flea market.So here are some cryptic DON’Ts by way of advice to all would-be hopefuls knocking on Five Rivers’ publishing doors. 1. DON’T submit without reading our guidelines…