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Cathy C. Hallhttps://cathychall.wordpress.com/I write, write, write. Then I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. THEN I submit all those polished-up words out into the world and sell 'em. It's a plan that's worked pretty well.

Finding Something Friday Quick! An Elegant Contest and a Promotion Workshop

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Quick! Check out the National Association of Baby Boomer Women! They’re sponsoring a contest called “The Age of Elegance” and you could win $100 if you can write really fast!

Good news: It’s only a 500 word essay about what you (the baby boomer woman, that is) considers her age of elegance. Easy, right? Unless you’re like me and still waiting for your age of elegance…

Bad news: The deadline’s May 31st. So, you really need to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and send that tasteful, elegant essay in!

Now, catch your breath. You have a week to sign up for Annette Fix’s Online Author and Book Promotion Workshop. Of course, if you sign up, I guarantee that Annette will have you working double-time on promotion! She’s the Senior Editor of WOW! Women on Writing ezine, but she’s also an author who has mega-promoted her book, The Break-up Diet: A Memoir.

In fact, Annette’s promoted her book all the way into an option for a cable TV series! Here’s what she says about her six-week intensive workshop: “By the end of this class, you will have a viable online marketing plan for your book, a platform for building awareness of your expertise/products/writing services, and a working knowledge of the vast options for online marketing.”

Whew! That’s a bunch of promotion-working in six weeks, but if you’ve published a book, or more importantly, are working on a book, this workshop could be the make-or-break difference for your marketing plan. And just in case you’re worried that it might be too technical for you, relax. Annette promises that you’ll get the guidance you need to navigate the social networks.

The workshop starts Monday, June 8, and you can get more info or register if you visit Annette’s site. Now, quick! Sign up- and start that essay, too. Time’s a-wastin’, writers!

Finding a (Misplaced) Keeper: Susie Magazine

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So, I’m flipping through my all-important Book of Notes, wherein I write all my important um, notes, and I came across Susie Magazine.

I completely forgot to mention this new magazine a month or so ago when I wrote it down in the Book of Notes! But now Susie Magazine has launched its first issue, so you can see this new mag for yourself.

Here’s the scoop on Susie Magazine…when Susie Shellenberger (hope I spelled that one right!) found that Focus on the Family was closing up shop on Brio Magazine, she decided that was a very poor idea.  A good idea, she thought, would be to produce her own print magazine. After all, she’d been the editor of Brio for I don’t know how many years. So, she started a blog (where she’s giving away tons of freebies), asked girls what they wanted to read, rounded up writers, and snap! Susie Magazine for your Christ-centered teenager’s reading pleasure.

Want to write for Susie? Check out the magazine. Know a young teen that might want to read Susie? Pass it on. And maybe you better get right on that-before you misplace your notes!