May 1, 2013
The Atwater Group
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Welcome!
As May looks us straight in the eye, I'm turning back to see how I'm doing on my goals.  How about you?  Have you keep your goals front and center?  Or have they drifted off to the side?  Now's a good time to review them - before you know it, summer will be in full swing and then half the year will be gone! But maybe you didn't set any goals.  Don't worry - there's no time like the present.  Check out this blog post and get going!

Have a great May!

Faith Williams
The Atwater Group

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How do you spell that?

Even the best of us have trouble figuring out how to spell sounds.  Enter the Onomatopoeia Dictionary, your newest source for figuring out just how to spell your favorite explosion (my favorite: badaboom from The Fifth Element) or maybe noises animals make (yakyakyakyak in the kitchen or maybe a little baa in the back fields).
Success - Not a Straight Line
Success in Indie Writing/Self-Publishing:  Success isn't overnight, no matter what you read in the paper.  And as an indie writer, you should know that better than anyone!  But, when you're feeling down or questioning your sanity for putting yet another book out there for the world, remind yourself that of these three qualities of an effective indie writer or these three traits of successful indie authors
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About Faith

Leaving the corporate world behind, Faith joined the untold thousands of people who...read.  But she doesn't just read - she also corrects!  And encourages authors to find that right word or phrasing!  And leaps buildings in a single bound! (No, wait - that's Superman, right? Oh, well - I never claimed to be a superhero!) 

Featured Author


Let's welcome this month's author, Maureen O. Betita.  You can check out The Kraken’s Mirror, The Ship’s Mistress, The Sister’s Story, Something Different, The Pirate Circus, TheChameleon Goggles, and most recently A Caribbean Spell. Maureen, thanks for taking some time to answer a few questions.

1)      What were your favorite books growing up? The Adventures of Robin Hood, everything Alexander Dumas wrote. The Pelucidar series from Edgar Rice Burroughs… Yes, I didn’t grow up on childrens’ books. I was reading Tolkien in fourth grade. And loving it!
2)      Now that you have, let’s say—some life experience, what would you tell your younger self? Get over yourself READ MORE




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