JE Thompson's Blog (70)

Wow!

It feels fantastic to be invited to be a presenter at a major national book festival. I recently received the email that I would be speaking at the Labor Day book festival national event.

I’m a presenter on the Local Prose Stage at the 2012 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Decatur, Georgia.

I will…

    What a wonderful and exciting moment for me as I was interviewed by Dorothy May Mercer on the National TalkStoryTV Featured Show for Author & Publisher Talk!

     The TalkStoryTV Show is part of Julia Widdop’s Seekers Journey program that interviews publishers and authors from across America. Widdop is based in Denver, Colorado.

       The video…

I just completed a very stimulating conversation with California based author Mark Tierno on his national radio show—Author Talk!

Mr. Tierno interviews authors from across international borders to get a different perspective on writing, publishing and marketing.

In the forty-five minute interview we talked about “Ghost Of Atlanta”, winner of the 2011 Readers…

     Mary Gilmartin is a published Author!

    When Mary walked into my creative writing

class, in the Emory Continuing Education program in Atlanta three years ago, she said she wanted to be a published author.   

      Well, on Saturday June 2, 2012 at the Artisan Restaurant in Historic Stone Mountain Village, Mary had the book signing

for her debut…

   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.

    Now, I’ve developed an interactive website with funky music (developed my Donald Moody II), videos and audio readings of certain chapters of Philly Style and Philly…

When you read a novel, it is not only for entertainment, but to learn something about life.

Oh, how we human being must meet and overcome new challenges.

I love the character of Jane Marple from the Agatha Christie Mystery series.

Miss Marple said in the book Of Bertram’s Hotel, when another character pined…

      I'm writing my fifth novel: Chasing The Wind.

      When I look at the word “Fifth”, it scares me. It seems like just yesterday I was working on my first novel, A Brownstone in Brooklyn. With the publication of  Brownstone, I thought my novel writing days were over.

      Now, four books later and I’m going strong in crafting…

       For the first time in my life, I’m stepping out on a limb and putting myself out there in a video. In fact, it is a video blog.

       Nervous!

       You bet, but I feel this is the next step in the evolution of the marketing of my books: A Brownstone in Brooklyn, Philly Style and Philly Profile, Ghost of Atlanta and Purple…

        Sometimes when I enter my writing area, in a corner of my office, it seems that words will not come and the critic inside me attacks my creativity with a constant bombardment of negative thoughts. "

       Enough!

       Finally, I sit down, strike the letters on the keyboard and let the words energize each other as they create vivid word pictures that…

     Decision Making is THE life fundamental that all teenagers must master in order to be successful in adulthood.

     The teens that follow the crowd and, not create their own identity, will have problems in reaching their life

goals.

     This was the thrust of my presentation to Redan High School (Stone Mountain, Georgia) students to open…