A Gathering-place for Authors and their Ideas

Again, a warm Welcome! to everyone. And we do mean everyone, since we believe the adage that everyone has at least one BOOK in them.

Yes, that includes you. Remember that book idea that's been germinating in your head for ... what, years now? This blog is meant to help anyone with the desire to take that idea and nurture it into the book you've always dreamed of writing.

Along the way, we'll all learn from each other. Our successes and challenges will provide guideposts to smooth the way for the next author.

A-ha! Authors helping authors.

Which reminds me, where are my manners? Introductions are in order.

We're Yvonne, Tom, and Maryanne, the ones who'll be writing the main posts. That was Yvonne writing yesterday. This is Tom writing today. And you'll hear from Maryanne tomorrow.

Confused? Well, don't worry. It's like we've just met and been introduced in a group. It may take a couple of visits for us all to get comfortable. Think of this blog as a virtual gathering place, like it's the watercooler or coffee area at WME Books, where you can stop by and get to know us. As you do, we're going to share our experiences with our own writing and encourage our authors to do the same. We hope you'll join in, too, with comments and maybe a guest post?

We're writers and bloggers ouselves. Yvonne is well known for her Lip-Sticking blog focused on marketing to women online. Tom's is called Knowledge Aforethought and he writes about "collecting and connecting the dots" (i.e. knowledge management and information design). Maryanne recently launched her own blog, Maryanne's Blog: Powdering Our Noses.

Together we all work to help others join the "bloggersation" (Maryanne's word) with our Business Blogging Boot Camp seminars and the supporting Business Blogging Boot Camp blog.

There, that gives you a start on who we are. What we want to share here are books ... and the ideas that fill them ... whether they've been written yet or not ... by us, or one of our authors, or you.

Please join us.

Comments

[Danielle]

This isn't really a comment, I just wanted to see if anybody knows of any good sites I can use to actually write my book. I have a great idea, I would just really like to type it out. Thanks, Danielle.

[Tom]

Hi Tessa,

I'm the only one here right this moment (Tom), but I think all of us at WME would be interested in helping out, if we can.

What do you have in mind? Which school are you from? Are you a professor, student, ...?

Several possibilities come to mind for connecting with you and your book club via our blog(s), but I guess we should start with your ideas and goals.

Let us know ...

[tessa]

uhm, i have established a book club in our school....i would like to research and get some help on developing oa module for our regular sessions. this is exclusively for education students in our university aimed at enhancing their social and communication skills as well as nurturing and enhancing values in them as future mentors in our society and in our locale commuity through insight sharing and group interaction...hope i've come to some sort of a sopt to find the help i need...thanks