Margaret Duarte

  The phrase, "What goes around comes around," rings especially true on a farm. So does, "You reap what you sow."   When we began our oat harvest in April, my first thought was, Here we go again. My second...

Blog Hop: easier agreed to than done A Next Best Thing blog hop is a giant game of tag to help readers discover authors who are new to them.  kern.justin / Wedding Photos / CC BY-NC-ND Naomi Williams, one of my former creative writing instr...

Sometimes, out of the blue, someone comes along at the perfect moment to point you in the right direction when you come to a fork in the road. For me, that someone was Shawn Hansen, The Indie Book Marketer.  A ...

(This post appeared yesterday on my other website and is slightly edited.) Visionary futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard believes December 22, 2012 is a day to celebrate. And she's doing so big time on what she calls Birth Day – the day after the...

To all writers - be you a novelist, journalist, PR-expert, or writer of Christmas letters - I think you'll get a kick  out of the Bla Bla Meter to "unmask" your writing style. Yep, it detects how much "bull" hides in your text. Bla...

When writing a post recently for Visionary Fiction Alliance about the relevance of visionary fiction in today's world, I realized how important "story" is to our lives.   +Freedomby ~myonlyexceptionisyou I'm not just talking ...

I've been blogging for over two years, and lately I've been doing some serious soul-searching about the value of working so hard. Then today, I received an email from Dean Koontz about a post I wrote about him at Visionary Fiction Alliance, and...

Mother Nature speaks to us in a language we can all understand.  It's the most beautiful language in the world, because it stimulates all our senses and sends invaluable messages to help us navigate our life journey.  During my mo...

 I'd like to introduce you to Visionary Fiction Alliance, a website created to promote visionary fiction. I've written a post there, titled Is Dean Koontz a Visionary Fiction Writer? It starts like this: Dean Koontz is generally c...

Mike Coker I recently attended a sit-up-and-take-notice workshop about how to produce, distribute and sell your work in the evolving eworld, given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords.  His opener jolted my wr...