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Featured Articles:

Friday, March 20, 2009
So You Think You’re Ready To Audition Your Manuscript What if you’re not? Don't be a premature submitter! [more]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Good Manners Are A Must [more]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Video: Plain Talk About Authors And Agents Featuring Marla Miller at the Southern California Writers Conference [more]
Monday, March 16, 2009
Featured Writing Tutorial For March 2009 TC Boyle shows writers how to give an interview. [more]

From The News Room:

Friday, March 13, 2009
Industry Growth The Good News... [more]
Industry Woes (Well it can't be all good news.) [more]
Thursday, March 12, 2009
An Author’s Good Manners Get Noticed [more]
Thursday, February 05, 2009
TC Boyle’s New Novel Reviewed In The NY Times We hope to have an interview with this literary master real soon... [more]

Marla's Musings Blog

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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Going Gray (Though I Prefer To Call It Silver) Part 2

You cannot write about going gray without including sex.

Gray is the anti-sex color.

One of my friends, a multiple divorcee, was completely gray by forty; a silvery mane that sparkled like she did on good days. By fifty, she was still single but didn’t want to be. Her hairdresser suggested going platinum. Only shades away from her natural silver, the platinum blond did attract more men though I don’t know if she snagged one. We lost touch.

(L) Alex Rose, Norma Rae producer, Chapman Film School Professor and (R) Marla Miller at Dodge Film School PitchFest session held at The House of Blues in West LA.

Articles & More

Friday, March 20, 2009

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So You Think You’re Ready To Audition Your Manuscript

What if you’re not? Don't be a premature submitter!

Premature submission may sour the interest of agents and/or editors who would otherwise be a good fit for you and your manuscript.

The Marketing The Muse Manuscript Readiness Evaluation Service is for both fiction & non fiction writers.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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Good Manners Are A Must

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the dais at the Santa Barbara Writers Workshop, (a fabulous FREE daylong workshop hosted by SB City College. A West Coast literary agent sat next to me. A Marketing the Muse workshop writer approached us. Though I knew this writer, the agent in question had just met her in my workshop.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Video: Plain Talk About Authors And Agents

Featuring Marla Miller at the Southern California Writers Conference

If you have questions about this video, please get in touch.

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Featured Writing Tutorial For March 2009

TC Boyle shows writers how to give an interview.

Watch and learn during this mini-interview with Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the NYT Book Review where they discuss his new novel The Women.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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An Author’s Good Manners Get Noticed

Longtime Marketing The Muse Workshop attendee, Jennifer Gay Summer’s, has a new book out (co-authored with her dad): Any Way You Can: 50 Years In Show Business, mentions yours truly in the Acknowledgements.

Thank you, Jen! You didn’t have to but it’s sure nice that you did.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

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