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The most common grammar mistake involves the ability to count. Fortunately, you only have to be able to count higher than 1.

If I write, “A man buys a house,” you can count the number of men: 1.

If I write, “Men buy houses,” you need to count higher than 1 because this sentence describes more than 1 man.

Now, let’s look at these two samples more carefully.

In the first sentence, “A man buys a house,” the subject is 1 man, described as “a man.” The verb “buys” ends…

Successful twenty-first century authors have three lifestyle components: Passion, Organization, and Uniqueness. Passion:Successful authors love their craft!

They delve into the storyline with abandon. They make time to write and know their most creative time of the day. This is different for each author.

I know of a writer who sneaks out of bed at four a.m. and…

You Must Take Chances in life to reach your goals! I can’t believe I waited until the autumn years of my life to take on risky business! For the first time in my life, I stepped out with a video blog about writing confidence where I had to face the camera and express my feelings in public. That was an exhilarating experience. Oh, how we human being must meet and…

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Sophia Reed is a single mother and the author of this book. Like many women Sophia found herself getting involved in one terrible relationship after the next in…

Initial and Introductory, any implicit attitude or anger are fatally danger than any explicit attitude or uttering anger.

Likely all Institutional and un-Institutional racism, discrimination, prejudice, and inequity exist globally two dimensionally.

All first world and developed countries racism, inequity and discrimination take place through un-institutional and implicitly.

Due to their…

Honor and Dignity the basic Instinct of Humanity,

Mutual respects and coexists are its functional conformity.

Social equity and neighborhoods co-operations are human rights exquisite…

(Written in September before the move to Carlisle)

Driving to work one night I kept scanning the radio stations trying to find something worthwhile. The AM side of my radio has gone kaput so I don't get to listen to the talk shows like I used to. The one FM station has sports talk during the drive so I usually end up listening to music. Taking Care Of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive…

Merry Christmas to all with a heart.

May your dreams be fulfilled within all that you start.

May you shine like a the north star.

Bringing light like the sun.

May kindness and love be shown to everyone.

As you celebrate…

Have you ever tried to achieve something positive in the community and instead of help and encouragement, one becomes a subject of ridicule and laughter? How would you feel when face to face you see yourself in a storm of laughter because one tries to raise money towards the publication of his book? It's the most saddest day in the writer's life as he faced all these degrading chapters in his life, yet he wasn't discouraged to publish this book.

"Little…

It started in Africa, the place often referred to as the Dark Continent, in terms of colour. But there is something more associated to the term dark, which might be spiritual or might be the simple chapters of the normal growing life of the African. However, such an experience of the normal growing life is too tough to handle.

Babatunde is a young man, whose harsh experience after his father’s untimely death still haunts him. Exposed to the world at a very…

According to National Cancer Institute, Cancer that forms in tissues of the breast. The most common type of breast cancer is ductile carcinoma, which begins in the lining of the milk ducts (thin tubes that carry milk from the lobules of the breast to the nipple). Another type of breast cancer is lobular carcinoma, which begins in the lobules (milk glands) of the breast. Invasive breast cancer is breast cancer that has spread from…

Child neglect and abuse are global issues of concern. In Europe, America and other advanced countries, even though no amount of compensation could heal the scars from physical and mental injury, there are organizations set up to restore the confidence of a neglected child.

In Africa it is entirely different. A neglected child has nowhere to go and sometimes no…

Book Review: By BEEM WEEKS 

isn’t a novel, though it certainly would make quite an interesting story. Neither is it a biography. What author Joel Savage has crafted is a very real look into the lives of victims of the AIDS epidemic that has plagued the world since before the dreaded disease was actually identified.

Savage introduces readers to Benta, a woman living on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark. When Benta is diagnosed with the AIDS virus, her family and friends desert…

As a child growing up in a strong religious family, I was thought that everything which is opposite to the teachings of the Holy Bible, including laziness is a sin. I tried my best to live a clean life. We were thought to believe that Israel, Jerusalem and other Biblical countries were all in heaven,…

The sweetness of reggae music was experienced in Africa in the early sixties, even though the seed of reggae was taken from Africa to the Caribbean. On the radio daily, was the music of artists such as John Holt, Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Decker, but the emergence of Jimmy Cliff, stole the heart of reggae lovers in African.

From many rivers to cross, house of exile, born to win, my friends wife, synthetic world, sitting in limbo, music maker, you can…

This week, my featured author said, “We're going on a cruise.”

I was excited. A cruise. The Bahamas, Hawaii, Fiji. Warm sunshine, sandy beaches...

“No, we're going to travel the Bosporus,” she said.

“But I want to go to Tahiti. Come on, you'll love it.”

However, as with some of the more insistent authors I interview, in the end, I don't get a say in…

So I will be off now for Christmas and the New Year and I would just like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I hope that the New Year brings joy and success to everyone and peace as well. April   

I was recently invited to Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, to speak to aspiring writers about the world of publishing. Mt. SAC, as it is commonly called, is the largest community college in the United States. I wasn't there just to lecture at the weekend writers' conference, but also to represent Oak Tree Press in my role as acquisitions editor and scout for talent.

To be 60 and sitting in a classroom with people barely in their 20's listening to teachers half my age was really…

As the frigid temps continue to winterize Iowa, I'm so glad for this week's featured author who gave me directions for the transporter and soon we're basking in the warm sunshine of Tisa Barefoot Bar in American Samoa. Leaves of palm trees moving lazily in the warm breeze, white sand and a spectacular view of the blue Pacific. She says this place makes the best pina coladas and I must…