A few of my savvy fellow writers use YouTube as a means of engaging readers and fans, so I decided to give it a try by making a video of one of my poems. I used iMovie and stock photos from my favorite online source, Morguefile. The poem "Picking Up Speed" is about the feeling parents get when their children seem to be growing up too fast. I vividly remember being a girl, thinking it would take … [Read more...]
Nickels, Pickles and Chewing Gum
Getting my 8 year-old granddaughter to memorize something to exercise her brain wasn't my intention, but it sure turned out to be fun for us both. Choo'n Gum As I drove her to my house for a sleepover, we heard this song with the silliest lyrics ever on Kids Place Live. Choo'n Gum, sung by Teresa Brewer with Jimmy Lytell & the Dixieland All Stars, was a Billboard hit in 1950: "A wing zingy … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Zilka Joseph
WHAT? Poetry, some hybrid forms, a little prose WHY? It springs naturally from a source that is beyond my comprehension, almost like a meditation or prayer, or a consciousness thinking aloud in something like an interior monologue. When something starts up in my mind— a bubbling, a rumbling, an itch, an ache, a desperation, anger, compassion, a vision or an unexpected insight or maybe all of … [Read more...]
Gender, Dressing Rooms and Bathrooms: Facts
Target boycotts. Fears. The horror over the possible mingling of sexes in dressing rooms and bathrooms, the fear of sexual deviants pouncing on our children, the denouncing of the idea that a gender other than male-female may exist, the concern that conservatives' rights are being trampled upon -- all this because someone wants to use the bathroom that matches his or her gender identity. Here are … [Read more...]
Why Reader Reviews Matter to Authors
A tsunami of books One book every five minutes. That's the estimated rate of books published by the click of a button on Amazon every day since the self-publishing boom. That's a tsunami of books! How can an author ever expect readers will find their book? This is why reader reviews are so important. Amazon's algorithms. Authors don't ask readers to post reviews to feed their ego - they need them … [Read more...]
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