Easter Memories

Bird's Nest Cake

Today is Easter Sunday and it got me thinking about past Easters in my family. My dad loved to play the Easter bunny, hiding baskets for my brother and me to find Easter morning. He always had a bowl of candy and colored eggs on the counter for him and my mom. He told us that the bunny didn't want the adults to feel left out. My husband and I carried on the holiday tradition with our kids as well. They helped us dye the eggs, but we hid the baskets after they went to bed Saturday night. One year we hid the colored eggs outside before going to Mass so that the kids could have an Easter egg hunt when we got back home. We could not figure out why the kids found so few eggs in the yard. Then we noticed a big crow who swooped down into the yard and grabbed one of the eggs that Andy had found. I guess the birds enjoyed an egg hunt of their own while we were at church. After that we filled plastic eggs with candy and left them out instead. That left the birds with nothing to crow about! What Easter memories do you have? Are you writing the stories down?

Easter 1994

People Are Sh!T

Poodi

I debated whether or not to write about my new endeavor on here as it contains a swear word. But we all know how imperative it is to get the maximum exposure on the Internet, and I need to tap into all of my existing contacts and relationships to get this off the ground. So, I will apologize in advance if I offend anyone, but today I launched my new website peopleareshit.com. The intent of the website is to give people a forum for writing their stories. While it may sound a little negative at first glance, I am thinking folks may find out that their parent, kid, teacher, boss, etc. isn't so bad after all when they read what someone else has to put up with. All submissions are anonymous and names of people, places and things will be removed if the author hasn't done this already. If things go as planned, I envision a book or series of books containing the stories being produced down the road. So, to all my writer friends out there, submit your stories!

Getting Your Book Published

Kim Wolterman, Getting Your Book Published

On Saturday the St. Louis Publishers Association held a four hour workshop on what authors need to know about publishing. Held at the St. Louis Community College Meramec Campus, the course covered traditional versus self-publishing, getting your book into print and the marketplace, making your book look good from a design standpoint, eBooks and book marketing. We had 27 attendees of all ages and writing backgrounds, and they certainly had a lot of wonderful questions. It is always fun to hear what other people are writing about, and this group was no exception. I am hoping that we see some of them at future St. Louis Publishers Association meetings!