DELIA QUIGLEY
-BOOKS AS ART~ART TO INSPIRE-
Category: On Writing
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Part 5 Shall we narrow down self-publishing advice to a bullet list of does and don’ts? I find bullet lists to feel so unfinished, and yet they can provide just enough information to get you over the rough parts. By that, I mean STUCK. Your feet mired in quicksand, and all your best intentions are…
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Part 4 You got your feet wet publishing with BookBaby and CreateSpace. So why change horses in mid-stream? First of all, I love that expression. I use it often to temper my impulsive nature when new technology tempts me with updates. Things can get lost; time wasted learning new programs, you know what I mean.…
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Part 3 Let’s talk about designing your book covers. Sure. Book covers are a scary topic for self-publishing authors because it is HIGHLY recommended that you hire a professional to do your cover. For the first Body Rejuvenation Cleanse (BRCleanse) cover, I turned to a graphic artist Meghan Lyding. I had just seen a photo…
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Part II So what happened after you wrote the Complete Idiot’s Guide To Detoxing Your Body? Soon after I finished, I was hired to write a book on SuperFoods. This allowed me to expand on foods not often mentioned in health and cookbooks. Foods such as sea vegetables, pumpkin seeds, micro algae’s, wild mushrooms, well…
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People tell me they want to write a book. I tell them to put their rear end in a chair and write. That’s the only way to write a book.
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The exciting thing about creating art is just doing it. ~Don Stettner
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“If you want to get to the place where the writing lives, imagine you’re dead.” ~Brendan Kennelly I was reading the Bono interview in the January 2018 Rolling Stone magazine. He was discoursing on lyric writing and how difficult it was becoming for him when he met the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly, who told him,…
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C.G. Jung February 16, 2018 When taking on a creative project like Maya Awakens, I found myself pretty much alone. The world was in turmoil at the time with the Ebola virus and…
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