EPISODE 6 - TURNING LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO A COMPELLING MEMOIR

AUTHOR/MUSICIAN JON D'AMORE NOT ONLY WROTE A COMPELLING BOOK, HE LIVED IT!

  Our guest Jon D’Amore was first published at 10 when a story he’d written about the Civil War was distributed throughout the county school system. During that time, he began studying the guitar. By his 20s, having honed his love and knowledge of music, Jon was traveling cross-country as a musician.
  While touring, Jon was also a feature writer for New Jersey’s 3rd largest newspaper, The Passaic Herald News, allowing him to enjoy the best of his favorite worlds…playing music and writing. Eventually, he found a different side of life. He said, “Goodbye and it’s been a slice!” to the music business and entered the corporate world. By the millennium another change had taken place.   
  For more than two decades, Jon knew that within him there was the desire and ability to write, so he drove to Los Angeles and started as soon as he arrived.
  As an insider with no mob ambitions, Jon had been a trusted ear and learned of the life and death manipulations that made friends and relatives from his world disappear. When the smoke cleared, Jon was one of the few left standing. The others were either dead or in prison. The Boss Always Sits In The Back isn’t “just another mob story.” It reveals the demise of the mobsters who ran northern New Jersey…as told by someone who was there.
He didn’t stop until the manuscript and screenplay for The Boss Always Sits In The Back were completed. Jon has written and co-written several screenplays and articles. He still resides in California where he continues to write…and listen to music and will share what it takes to write a compelling memoir and publicize it.

EPISODE 5 - PROMOTING YOUR BOOK FRUGALLY

CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER, SHARE SECRETS OF PROMOTING YOUR BOOK WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK

Our January 14. 2015 guest, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, is best known as The Frugal Book Promoter, but she is also a literary writer, poet, and all round smart and giving marketer.
DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR TIPS FROM THE GURU OF FRUGAL MARKETING AND PROMOTION!
As a college freshman, she was the youngest person ever hired as a staff writer for the Salt Lake Tribune--"A Great Pulitzer Prize Winning Newspaper"--where she wrote features for the society page and a column under the name Debra Paige.
Later, in New York, she was an editorial assistant at Good Housekeeping Magazine. and also handled accounts for famous fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert who developed the first "10 Best Dressed List." It was her fun job to write releases for celebrity designers of the time including Pauline Trigere, Rudy Gernreich, and Christian Dior.
She was given the Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award by California Legislature members, Carol Liu, Dario Frommer, and Jack Scott and says she is really proud of that. In its first edition, "The Frugal Book Promoter" became an instant best seller as an e-book on ebookad.com and the paperback opened to rave reviews on Amazon. It is now in its second edition, expanded and updated. It became the first in the How To Do It Frugally series. "The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success" was the next. The Book Publicists of Southern California honored her with their Irwin Award and the "Pasadena Weekly" for literary activism.

EPISODE 4 - WRITING HOLIDAY THEMED STORIES

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO WRITE A HOLIDAY-THEMED STORY

It's Christmas Eve and the Elves are busy zipping around with Santa--what happens next? Holiday-themed books and stories can go in many directions when the author uses the "what if" test while creating the plot. They can be fiction, non-fiction, funny, romantic, thrillers, whodunits, fantasies and just about any genre you can think of. They are also ripe playgrounds for the author to add twists. Think about the iconic movie "It's a Wonderful Life," and how many directions that story could have taken. What are some of the elements that draw readers to these books as each holiday rolls around? Do they sell well? Since it is Christmas Eve, Denny and Morgan will be with their families, and this show will be a pre-recorded broadcast for your enjoyment. It will also become part of the archived shows available for future listening. So lift your glass of Christmas cheer while you listen and think about all of the holidays that will inspire and have inspired a huge variety of plots.

WRITERS TRICKS OF THE TRADE RADIO LAUNCHES BLOG

The WRITERS TRICKS OF THE TRADE radio show was inspired by the book of the same name.

As this site is built, links to all of the Podcasts will be in one convenient place for your listening ease.

We welcome our listener's comments about shows they've heard or topics they would like to hear about.

It all began with the first show: Rivet Your Reader. During the next several weeks all of the current and upcoming broadcasts will be listed here with direct links to the podcast. Watch for the most recent and upcoming to be posted first followed by episodes in descending order.

Hosts Morgan St. James and Eric James Miller are Board members of Writers of Southern Nevada. For more information about this writer's organization, please visit the website and Facebook page. 

Dennis N. Griffin is a well-known true crime writer and frequent radio host and guest.  

These three authors and some special guests share their tricks of the trade for a variety of topics on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at 6:00 pm PST and 9:00 pm EST (or daylight time when in force). So, tune in and enjoy.