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World of Writing - Author Interview I am thrilled to host an interview with our online UK-based friend - Karen Kelly. Karen is a wonderful person, super at her work and passionate about making a positive difference. Her podcasts Appetite For Life , Authors And More and Bedtime Stories all welcome guest queries.  Karen and her husband Dave, their 2 children and their devoted collie, Baxter reside in the UK.  Her wide array of experiences includes working in the hospitality industry, a stint as a fitness instructor, and running the odd marathon!  A successful podcaster, presenter, producer, mother and homemaker, Karen somehow fits writing into her already busy schedule. Karen formerly worked as cabin crew for various airlines including Caledonian Airways and Thomas Cook . The book we are discussing today is Lillian White's Journey. Drop by Karen's FaceBook,   LinkedIn and Instagram pages or visit her on  Twitter Q: I mentioned already that you are located in t...

Media Appearance How exciting to find that one of our connections published a book feature spotlight for our book Purple Snowflake Marketing - How To Make Your Book Stand Out In A Crowd on the main page of their website!!  How cool is that?  *Natalia offers Spanish-English translation, editing and other services for authors looking to branch into other languages.  Just look to the right side of this website below to see the generous spotlight she did for us !  https://authors.tradulibro.net/ ~~ Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~  

The Ratio of Dry and Fresh Herbs Herbs are expensive to buy, but because they take so little space, they are also really easy to grow your own. It is incredibly satisfying to grow an array of herbs in containers on a deck or front step or even inside during the winter. We chose to make use of every corner of our property by planting perennial herbs in the landscaping. Chives and basil are always featured in our vegetable garden. Herbs also grace our deck and lawn sitting areas along with our potted flowers. When we have harvested all we need to store for the winter, we let the herbs flower and they do attract a lot of bees and butterflies! The grocery store supplies fresh herbs either in tiny flat plastic boxes, or in small bunches, at quite a hefty price. When we get home though, we often find that the recipe only calls for a Tbsp. of that herb. Of course we can extend the life of any fresh cut herb by wrapping the stems in a damp paper towel and place the entire bunch inside a bag fo...

 

Book Review ! How nice it is to have our long-time online friend Donna Sundblad review our book, Purple Snowflake Marketing. I'm sharing her article with you today. Donna Sundblad shares the joy of storytelling with her grandchildren, and her love of writing spreads beyond the pages of her books to workshops, the development and teaching of online writers' classes, and a monthly column for writers. Look for her many books on Amazon, including her creative writing book Pumping Your Muse,  fantasy novel Windwalker, Dragon Born,  a host of short stories available in anthologies and The Inheritance .  https://donnasundblad.wordpress.com/ Dave and Lillian Brummet's Purple Snowflake Marketing gets an A+ as a guide to help new authors get their books into the hands of reviewers, booksellers and ultimately readers. This how-to book doesn't just pump you up with a lot of motivational rhetoric, but supplies authors and small presses with practical, low-budget marketing tools...

Quote of the Day  ©BrummetMedia.ca "And this, our life,  exempt from public haunt,  finds tongues in trees,  books in the running brooks,  sermons in stones,  and good in everything."  ~ William Shakespeare   ~~ Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

Recommended Resources The link below will take you to our business friend, Rahul Miglani's My Magic Jobs  YouTube Channel, which focuses on career, interview and resume tips, and business management. I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5B-IdqGTKxHKLyy0rfW_Q- - This non-profit works to help female members network with one another, while providing training, education, self-care, life-balance, health and emotional support.   http://ewomennetworkfoundation.org  - Bird Life's You'tube channel is a fantastic place to learn more about birds, birding, bird calls, and more:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bo5Wr8yPUkleeZaaRzhdg ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

Do you need a writing coach? * Today's article was written by a regular (monthly) contributor, author Elise Smith who offers writing coach services. Elise has 25 years experience in the realm of writing and has personally written and published 4 books. She strives to be a mentor for others struggling with organization, structure, character and other issues. For a limited time she is offering the first hour of consultation absolutely FREE. Elise invites you to "Please head over to my website for credentials, references, more information and much more. https://www.mynzdreamblog.com and email me direct (elisebrooke771@gmail.com) to book your free appointment." Coaches and editors can both improve your writing skills and make you a better writer. If you are thinking about hiring a writing coach, you need to understand what you want first and what kind of help you would like. A good coach will help you work on yourself as an author by making your book more compelling, and hel...

Happy New Year to all our wonderful connections out there !!!!!  Thank you everyone for dropping by our social networking pages, website, blogs, etc.  Thank you for sharing, commenting, sending us messages and communicating with us. Thank you for having us as guests on your podcasts, blogs, vlogs, channels & print publications.  What a year 2021 ended up being, so busy and eventful... and January is showing that we'll be busy this year too !  We were in the media more than 120 times in 2021 and the Brummet's Conscious Blog   readers increased significantly (142,910 in the month of December ...and more than 137,000 so far in January) - proving our Purple Snowflake Marketing techniques work.  Thank you  all for the support and wonderful networking connections in 2021... and hopefully for the future to come 🙂

Kudo's !!  Kudo's to Earth X - America's largest environmental expo, conference, film festival and virtual TV channel  !! Networking with International Union for Conservation of Nature and Earth Day Dallas, and many others - their work focuses on creating sustainable green business future for all the planet.  Check out this interview with one of the founders of Earth X, Vikram Agrawal:  https://www.greenprophet.com/2021/07/sustainable-investing-earthx ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~  

Writing Procrastination Procrastination can often come hand-in-hand with a writing career, or being self-employed even. Sometimes we avoid work because we are afraid of failure, overwhelmed by the immensity of the work or perhaps we are actually afraid of success - sounds weird, I know, but it is actually a thing. Sometimes procrastination comes in because the chore at hand may not be an enjoyable one, while a more enjoyable activity looms in your mind. Perhaps your procrastination comes from having fare too  many ideas or opportunities and you just don't know where to start.  There are times when we are so buried in ideas we just have to hash them out. Make a coffee and start talking to the walls, if you have to - figure out what your current goals are and write down any ideas you have already mentally created. Writing down these random thoughts can help you prioritize and organize what you see on the page(s). Jotting down thoughts as they come to you can help ease stres...

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Media Appearance  It is with sincere pleasure that I share this next resource with you... I connected with Poppy Kuroki back in early May this year after we met on the Authors Supporting Authors FaceBook group. She and I began communicating and realized that had many things in common to talk about. As it turns out, she is the author of numerous books including  A Bard's Lament and she also writes about her experiences in Japan. Poppy invited me to appear as a featured guest on her wonderful blog: Great Books With Poppy - where she and I had a fantastic conversation. I hope you check it out, and if you like it - let us know :)  https://greatbookswithpoppy.com/2021/10/10/an-interview-with-lillian-brummet-non-fiction-and-poetry-author/ ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

Quote of the Day  ©BrummetMedia.ca " Researchers at Harvard say  that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon  can totally refresh you.  They say that by the time you wake up  you'll feel so good,  you'll be able to start looking for a new job. " ~ Jay Leno ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~  

World of Writing - Author Interview *Today's guest comes to us via Leslie Barrett of PRByTheBook.com. We are joined by Arthur Swan who was raised in North Carolina and now resides in Los Angeles, where his day job is a Character Supervisor for DreamWorks. He has contributed to films ranging from A Beautiful Mind  to How to Train Your Dragon . In his spare time, when he’s not writing or swimming his morning laps, he volunteers for Young Storytellers , enjoys fishing and fireworks with his favorite niece and nephew, and on weekends he can be found hiking high climbs in early fog before the sun burns through as mist vanishes to blue sky. His first novel, Before the Sun Hits , won the Reader Views Reader’s Choice Award . To learn more about Arthur, he invites you to visit:  https://swanfall.com https://www.facebook.com/ArthurSwanAuth Q: So let us start, Arthur, by having you share what motivates you to write? I want to tell a story that captures readers' imaginations, that they wi...

Just For Writers !!    Today is the 9th installment of this new series of posts  Just For Writers !  Watch for a new post in this series  around the middle of every month  !!  * Note : Some of these links go back as far as early 2000's and may refer to our old website - ignore them. Go to:   http://BrummetMedia.ca -- Life coach and author Bob Crawford dropped by our blog for an interview back in 2012. *This refers to our old website, ignore that. : https://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com/2012/12/author-interview-time-management-article.html -- KWE Publishing , a Morgan James Publishing Imprint , offers a helpful podcast, Sociable Scribes , for writers of most genres. I found this interview with Charles George of particular interest   https://kwepub.com/sociable-scribes-podcast-season-210-charles-george-book-marketing-guru-publish-to-thrive/   , and I encourage our readers to check out the 6 pages or so of previously published...