So, here I am with my American BFF watching a wedding, and eating and drinking at 5 in the morning. This morning. Here’s why: Continue reading “Mimosas In New York (Yes At 5 A.M! ) As Harry Marries Meghan”
Author: joanna
Just In Time For Mother’s Day
There comes a time, usually around the first day of Spring, when you look out of your windows, see all the drab browns and grays, and you wonder whether any of it is ever going to turn green again?
For me it happens every year, and I always think, no way, I can’t see how all this is going to turn green and bright this year. This year it was especially questionable. Our winter was long and it kept coming. And coming. (Click on photos to enlarge them) Continue reading “Just In Time For Mother’s Day”
3 Bestselling Authors Tell How Reading is #1 Key To Writing Success
Whether you’re an avid reader or an aspiring author, if you get the chance to meet and listen to several bestselling authors all gathered in the same room, you go, don’t you? You want to know how they made it to the bestseller charts; or maybe more modestly you want to know how they wrote their successful novels; where they get their ideas, how they find the time to finish a novel? I know I always leap at such an opportunity. As I did a couple of weeks ago. Continue reading “3 Bestselling Authors Tell How Reading is #1 Key To Writing Success”
Dan Rather At Palm Beach Book Festival: (Most) Leaders Are Readers
You may have heard the expression “readers are leaders.” It happens to be a favorite one of my husband’s. Well, at this year’s Palm Beach Book Festival, author and journalist, Dan Rather kinda stood that saying on its head.
Commenting on the many world leaders he has met during his long career as a journalist and news anchor, he says from the stage of the Palm Beach County Convention Center: “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Continue reading “Dan Rather At Palm Beach Book Festival: (Most) Leaders Are Readers”
So You Think It’s Easier To Write A Screenplay Than A Novel?
Even if you’re not a professional writer, you may secretly — or not so secretly — harbor the ambition of writing a novel or a memoir. Whether it’s a rollicking good tale that you’ve created in your imagination, or it’s your own exciting/tragic/hilarious life story, you feel you have a tale to tell. And, if you actually sit down to write the book, you will quite likely reach a point when you decide to write your story as a screenplay. Continue reading “So You Think It’s Easier To Write A Screenplay Than A Novel?”