Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

Book Talk

The Angel and the Brown Eyed Boy / Visionary Fiction

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I just finished reading the first seven chapters of Sandy Nathan’s The Angel and the Brown Eyed Boy and enjoyed them tremendously.  This Indie Excellence and IPPY Award winner is an example of Visionary Fiction. In an article titled “How to Survive Amazon’s KDP Free Book Program,” Sandy writes about her struggle to market her […]

Margaret Duarte’s Video Book Trailer

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Here’s a YouTube book trailer explaining  what the four books in my “Enter the Between” series are all about. And what I’m all about. YouTube Book Trailer I’ve taken my brand statement and put it to music. Here it is in words: My Brand Statement “Everyone has the capacity for spiritual and emotional freedom. Through […]

Manuscript Makeover Mode

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I’m in the final manuscript makeover mode, which means my blog has been relegated to second status for awhile. Makeovers and blogs are hungry beasts and quite jealous and suspicious of each other. When they don’t get enough attention (and regular feeding), they go on strike. Immediately. No use in reasoning with them or begging for […]

Images and Symbols / Making the Invisible Visible

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“By taking the lid off the unconscious, we can be guided by its knowledge,” says Bernie Siegel, in an article titled Making the Invisible Visible–How dreams and drawings reveal the unknown and invisible.  Siegel, a self-described Jungian surgeon, encourages his patients to share, through drawings, their experiences of life and illness. He, in turn, uses these drawings […]

Writers Need Vibrant, Creative Partnerships

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I’m sure you’ve heard before that an author platform is mandatory to your publishing career. You’ve also heard that in building a platform you need to blog, social network, and use video sites. In other words, you have to do your own marketing and promotion. “Publishers want to know how many people you know,” says Jennifer Hill Robenalt, a 20-year communications […]

Self-Doubt, Writer’s Block, and Guilt

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Did you know that John Steinbeck kept a journal while writing East of Eden and that it is available in book form? For writers who struggle with such things as self-doubt, writer’s block, and guilt, John Steinbeck’s Journal of a Novel is balm to a wound. He wrote it in the form of letters to his editor at Viking Press, […]