JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
Call them online sleuths, web detectives, or sometimes armchair vigilantes. These days apparently, they are everywhere, and you, too, could be one so long as you have a desktop or laptop computer with a connection to the Internet, and a passion for true crime — especially for unsolved homicides. Continue reading “Amateur Online Sleuths: How They Work & Do They Help Solve Crimes?”
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”
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”
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?”
Scott Eyman is a former book and art critic for the Palm Beach Post, and the author of 15 books. These include three written about, and with, Hollywood icon, Robert (R.J.) Wagner, husband of the late Natalie Wood whose drowning death 37 years ago is under new investigation as of last week. So of course when Eyman was scheduled as a speaker for the Palm Beach Writers Group this week, I signed up. Continue reading “Indie Authors, Book Covers — And A Hollywood Drowning Mystery”