VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

Welcome to a special World of Ink Network show here on Blog Talk Radio. Our goal is to bring informitive and entertaining shows to our listners. The mission of the World of Ink Network is to share resources that introduce tips, products and services to help strengthen, support and challenge those who love writing and the written word. The World of Ink Network hopes not only to bring authors, illustrators and publishers together, but also help them reach their readership. We invite you to join Virginia S Grenier and Marsha Casper Cook on Monday July 21 at 5PM EST 4 PM CST 3 PM MT 2PM PST when they welcome back their very special guest Emma Dryden. Emma has over twenty- five years of experience editing and publishing Children’s books. She works with authors to help define, enrich, and craft their work to make it viable for the current marketplace. She is there for writers as she has always been and her interests range from picture books and graphic novels...

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network Show: The Writing Mama with hosts VS Grenier and Marsha Casper Cook will be chatting with multi-award winning author and motivational speaker, Johnny Tan about his book, From My Mama’s Kitchen and his blog talk radio show: From My Mama’s Kitchen; along with his powerful and hilarious motivational speeches he delivers nationally. Johnny Tan is known for connecting with workshop groups and listeners of his blog talk radio show: From My Mama’s Kitchen. He’s signature leadership speeches, workshops and mini-seminars move and empower organizations. He is the founder of From My Mama’s Kitchen and delivers a message of “personal success begins at home”, which has inspired many to rethink how they can help others to live a life of conscious choice, and contribute to the well being of everyone around them. Johnny Tan’s book, From My Mama’s Kitchen is about the nine women whom Johnny respectfully calls his moms. “From My Mama’s Kitchen is Johnny T...

Cheryl Mansfield, Copy Editor of SFC, still wishes she were still a kid. Since that isn't possible she plays with her imaginary friends by creating stories for young children to preteens. She is published in biographies for the educational market and is a member of SCBWI. Contact Cheryl Mansfield at copyeditor@storiesforchildrenpublishing.com Cheryl, I want to thank you for being my guest here on The Writing Mama today. I know being a parent and writer can be hard and I find myself asking if I giving my three children enough attention throughout the day. I am sure you have been in my shoes from time to time. So to start here is the first question… What do you do to help balance your writing life with your family life? I try to segment my time and make appointments for my writing. For instance, all my family and friends understand that on Saturdays I meet with writer friends to work for a few hours. It’s important to me and I treat it like a second job. How long have you b...

Stephen Tremp, author of the BREAKTHROUGH series, is a suspense thriller writer. Stephen has a B.A. in information systems and an MBA degree in global management. He is currently completing his doctorate in business administration. Stephen has a background in information systems, management and finance and draws from this varied and complex experiential knowledge to write one-of-a-kind thrillers. His novels are enhanced by current events at the European Organization for Nuclear Research  (CERN) and other scientific research facilities around the world. Theoretical physicists are searching for evidence of a wide spectrum of potential discoveries that were once considered fodder for science fiction, including: parallel universes and higher dimensions of space, dark energy, dark matter, anti-matter, and the Higgs boson particle—The God Particle—among other exciting concepts. These potential advances have the ability to change the way we perceive our universe and our ...

For Immediate Release   The Mean Mom and Author Natalie June Reilly on Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network show: The Writing Mama –April 8, 2011   Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network Show: The Writing Mama with hosts VS Grenier and Marsha Casper Cook will be chatting with The Mean Mom and Author Natalie June Reilly about her most recent book, My Stick Family, Helping Children Cope with Divorce. Natalie is a happily single mean mom living in Peoria, Arizona, raising two extraordinary teenage boys. She is the author of the children's book, My Stick Family: Helping Children Cope with Divorce . And she is a community columnist for the Arizona Republic , a contributor for Phoenix Woman magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Tribute to Mom , Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People , Raising Arizona Kids , The Big Apple Parent , Sign of the Times and various other newspapers and magazines throughout the country. She is excited to...

     As writers, we are responsible for creating our own work structure.   No one makes us write.   No one tells us how much to write or when to do it.   If we are to be productive writers, we have to monitor ourselves.   Goals are one way to do that.      The goals we set should be measurable and attainable.   Measurable goals are goals that require some kind of output.   It might be to write a certain number of pages per day.   Or it might be to send out a certain number of query letters per month.   Whatever the goal is, it should be quantifiable.      Goals should also be attainable.   For a goal to be attainable, we have to be honest with ourselves.   So ask yourself, do you really have the time to crank out a five-hundred-page novel in six months?   Are you really going to earn $40,000 a year as a writer?   Our goals should be realistic, recognizing what is...