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Author & 22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan proud of fellow members of California Writers Club – San Francisco Peninsula Branch
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa says: “Fortify Your Platform with New Tags for Your Books and All Your Writings.”
How do you attract new fans? When your friends and colleagues brag about you? Yes! What else? How do you help your prospective fans find you? By making your name synonymous with the issues / themes / subject matter you write about? Yes!! After all, when folks need something, don’t they go to search engines and type keywords and key phrases (aka “tags”) to find what they need? Those folks will find you through the tags associated with your name!
Here’s an excellent example — let’s look at author Wendy D. Walter and her tags. Wendy writes fantasy / adventure stories for young adults / teens. Her protagonist is fourteen-year-old Ambril Derwyn.
I hosted Wendy D. Walter (author of Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith) in a live-blog event on January 5, 2013. Nineteen fans (old and new) showed up to greet her and cheer for her and to ask questions.
Thank you, Anne M. Beggs, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Christopher Wachlin, Deborah Taylor-French, Diane LeBow, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Eugenia Budman, Eve Visconti, Janine, Jean Morrow, Kate Farrell, LakshmiLove, Linda C. McCabe, Margie Yee Webb, Maria, Tera, Thonie Hevron, Yolande Barial, for participating on January 5th, 2013!
To see complete questions and answers and comments from please click on: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/please-help-me-welcome-author-wendy-d-walter-to-this-live-blog-appearance/
To read my interview with Wendy, please click on:
Here are some tags associated with Wendy D. Walter’s writings
- Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith
- father’s death
- half-truth
- ancient Celtic magic and nature-based magic
- introverts
- Global Warming, rising seas, raging storms
- Utah in the middle of winter
- taking on the bullies
- fictional California town Trelawnyd
- fantasy stories
- monsters
- young adult Y/A
- secret warriors
- human morality
Thank you,Wendy, for having written a compelling story. What a page-turner!
Look for more “tags” in Wendy D. Walter‘s answers to the questions asked by fans:
“My all time favorite writer is Jane Austen. It’s been over 200 years since she was first published and her stories still enthrall me. From her books, I learned that the most important thing a writer can do is to make your readers care about what happens to your character and to never underestimate your reader.”
“I’m also a great admirer of Diana Wynne Jones, my favorite fantasy writer. She also never underestimated her readers and gave us incredibly intricate and original stories. Her books are often funny as well!”
“And that is why Ambril’s Tail has a very robust plot, with lots of twists and turns and strives to be humorous as often as possible!”
“Some of my characters are right out of my imagination, but some of them have roots in mythology. The Aunties, for instance, are the seers of the story, who share one pair of glasses. Perseus runs into three crones who share one eye and a tooth in one of his adventures, but groupings of three witches/hags/seers appear in all sorts of ancient Nordic and Germanic stories as well!”
“The Cerberus, the guardians of the underworld, is one of my favorite Greek legends.”
“I’m not sure why this is, but if you take a simple bullying exchange off the playground in our world and give the characters fangs and fairy wings, the issue becomes much clearer. In fantasy, we get a bit heavy handed at times and tend to make our bullies actual monsters (it’s more fun that way). Also, as bullying is an obvious abuse of power, it works well within worlds where it’s clear who the good and bad guys are, at least most of the time! Check out the Q & A Teresa posted on this blog for more on bullying: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/coach-teresas-interview-questions-for-author-wendy-d-walter-ambrils-tale-the-return-of-the-dullaith/ Bullying appears to be a behavior that some mistake for strength, particularly the immature (of all ages).”
“And there is a great male main character called Ygg. My beta readers all chose him as their favorite character!”
“Ambril’s Tale is for the 10-14 marketplace, just right for middle schoolers!”
Where to Find the book Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith:
http://www.amazon.com/Ambrils-Tale-Return-Dullaith-ebook/dp/B008EALE3A/
Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith at Barnes and Noble
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/174750
“Book 2, Ambril’s Tale, Riding the Cursed Shoots, is coming out in March, 2013!”
Cheers to Wendy D. Walter, protagonist Ambril and everyone she cares about!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
As author of Love Made of Heart, creator of Love Made of Heart gift items and the “Talking to My Dead Mom Monologues,” Teresa encourages writers to speak out (in print) for those who cannot speak for themselves.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW , Teresa says: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
June 12, 2012
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Has Fun with Colleagues at San Mateo County Fair 2012
Please click on the title bar of this post, scroll down, and submit a comment – what were you doing at the Literary Arts stage area?
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5:00-6:00pm Playwrights Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Ollie Mae Trost Welch, David Hirzel (author interviews by Darlene Frank after the plays are read)
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Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now (middle-aged woman asks her dead mother a question) is one of nine winning-plays to be produced by Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival.
2012 Performance Dates:
- June 29 – 8:00 PM
- June 30 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
- July 1 – 2:00 PM
6th Street Playhouse – Studio Theater – Santa Rosa, CA
All Tickets: $16.00 – purchase by phone (707) 523-4185 ext 1 or online
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Mr. Tree walks and talks at San Mateo County Fair–photo by Coach Teresa
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story in their manuscripts.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
Teresa created the annual “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” and cheers for all contestants.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for her Blog, events, and other resources.
Coach Teresa and California Writers Club Members All So Sad for Ruth Silnes’s Loved Ones
I just received an email from CWC-SF Peninsula Branch President Christopher Wachlin who had received news from author Margaret Davis…
So sad for Ruth’s loved ones and us friends and fans ! Ruth was a sparkling light.
Author Ruth Silnes was a generous artist and teacher.
She offered on her blog :
FREE Art Lessons
We will begin by touching on various aspects of drawing: seeing with the artist’s eye, values, creativity, abstraction, armchair research and where to go from there. The goal is to encourage your artistic abilities. It will be a journey of discovery.
Lessons 1 through 11
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On Ruth’s other blog The Art of Aging, by Ruth Silnes Ruth had just written: AS I SEE IT: AGING IS WHEN?
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Ruth’s most recent book: YOU and THE ARTS: Why Art Matters
written and illustrated by Ruth Silnes; written for travelers, educators, artists and art lovers
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July 24, 2011
Legacy online guestbook via The Mercury News for beloved Ruth Silnes
Dear Sandra, My heart has been heavy. I send prayers that your darling mom (a.k.a. “Ruth-Can-Do-Anything”) will visit you in sweet dreams.
Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
I’m so happy for the contributing authors in Fault Zone: Words from the Edge (the California Writers Club-San Francisco Peninsula branch’s anthology). Available at Kepler’s Books & Magazines.
Ann Foster
Bardi Rosman Koodrin
Carole Bumpus
Cheryl S. Levinson
Christopher Wachlin
Darlene Frank
David Hirzel
Diane Moomey
Elise Frances Miller
Eve Visconti
Ida Lewenstein
James Hanna
Jo Carpignano
Laurel Anne Hill
Linda Newman
Lisa Meltzer Penn (also editor)
Lucy Ann Murray
Margaret Davis
Martha Clark Scala
Mil Pribble
Ollie Mae Trost Welch
Tia Creighton
Tory Hartmann
“For writers who want to study the craft and for readers who love engaging stories and poems, the anthology Fault Zone: Words from the Edge fits the bill. How to entertain with humor, suspense, poignancy? All here. Bravissimo, California Writers Club authors and editors!” Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author, manuscript consultant, writing career coach
Teresa is author of Love Made of Heart
Teresa is author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
Coach Teresa, how do I build fame as a writer?
Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to say: “Use what you know to build fame. Use your three intertwining circles. Be yourself. Have fun.”
Contact me if you would like to invite me to your writers’ club. My email address is on my website: Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
I had so much fun yesterday with California Writers Club–San Francisco Peninsula branch members at the San Mateo County Fair.
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Congratulations to the Writers Who Entered The Immigrant Experience Writing Contest!
DIVISION 342 – THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: NOVEL, MEMOIR, OR SHORT STORY
Sponsored by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
First place winner: “My Chinese American Experience” by Patricia Tsang
Second place winner: “Dancing Among the Tombstones” by Ellen Six
Third place winner: “Culture Shock” by Lucy Murray
Honorable Mention: “Message Deleted” by Evie Groch
Honorable Mention: “Caught in the Current” by Uldis Zebergs
Honorable Mention: “The Luck of the Irish” by Martha Traynor
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Thank you, Boris Koodrin, Fine Arts Director at the San Mateo County Fair!
Thank you a thousand times, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Literary Arts Director, for your big-hearted spirit and courage!
“Reach out, not stress out, when building your fame!”
Sincerely,
Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
author of Love Made of Heart
What Can I Learn from the Stories in Anthologies?
Readers can learn about other cultures, other times, and even experience events through the “safety” of pages. Readers who are also writers can learn how to craft stories from authors who contribute their work to anthologies.
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On May 5, 2011 while I was at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, getting ready for the Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter celebration, I received a call from Christopher Wachlin of California Writers Club-SF Peninsula Branch. Chris is one of the talented authors in the anthology Fault Zone. His news was that Kepler’s Books and Magazines (in Menlo Park, CA) has sold out the anthology and Chris would be delivering more books.
“For readers who love engaging stories and poems, Fault Zone fits the bill.” –Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of the mother-daughter novel Love Made of Heart and the writer’s guide Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fan Base in 22 Days
I look forward to seeing the contributing authors, editor Lisa Meltzer Penn, and all the champions who made the anthology a reality. Bravi! See you at the San Mateo County Fair-Literary Arts Department events June 11-19, 2011 (I, Teresa LeYung Ryan, will be presenting on Friday June 17, 8:00-9:00pm)
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Here’s my email to Editor-in-Chielf Kate Farrell regarding her anthology Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother
May 11, 2011
Dear Kate,
I’ve read your beautiful introduction, Amber Lea Starfire’s and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s, and the stories by Pat Jackson-Colando, Diane Hurles, Marilyn J. Curry, Nancy LaTurner, Barbara Toboni, Ana Manwaring, and Laura McHale Holland.
The stories touched me deeply.
My praise:
“How daughters remember mothers’ lives, resurrecting maternal hold or finding courage through translations of their sorrows, dreams and triumphs. Daughters answering the haunting question: ‘To be or not to be like them?’ The words and pages in the anthology Wisdom Has a Voice (Edited by Kate Farrell) touch the sometimes fragile oftentimes vibrant heart. Beautiful.” Teresa LeYung-Ryan–author of Love Made of Heart and the Build Your Writer’s… workbook series
Too long? Let me know.
Thank you for including me in your labor of love; I predict great success for this anthology.
Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung-Ryan
May 13, 2011 Kate emailed back. She transformed my three long sentences into two concise ones. Thank you, Kate!
So, now my praise reads:
In Wisdom Has a Voice daughters answer the haunting question: ‘To be or not to be like mother?’ As they remember their mothers’ lives, they discover courage in touching translations of her sorrows, dreams, and triumphs. Beautiful.” —Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer’s…workbook series
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Cheers to all the hearts in these two anthologies!
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Reviews on Amazon:
I bought it before a writers conference I attended and while the writers conference was great to energize my desire to get a platform going, two weeks later, it was Teresa LeYung Ryan’s and Christine Katz’s books that kept me going and powering through. While Katz’s book is a good “here is what to do”, Ryan’s book is “do this”. Both are great. I am happy I bought it, and would recommend it (and Katz’s book if you can buy two). It is a task focused book that is great for a first time author with little or no marketing/media experience.
If you want to build your platform or even start marketing your business, this is a book to consider. If you need someone to guide you, this is your book!
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Thanks to Teresa’s book I learned to contact a star. The famous Carol Channing wrote a review for my latest book YOU and THE ARTS–Why Art Matters. Teresa’s book is a wonderful help in learing how to get good publicity.
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This book taught me a lot. It’s packed with information, and the presentations and exercises build upon what came before. It’s direct and clear and has plenty of instructive examples that plainly show the way, and how to get there. It’s like having your very own writing career coach with you at every step. This extremely helpful workbook has given me great preparation for building a platform. I enthusiastically recommend it.
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This book is written as a set of specific tasks. And I think that is what is so great about it. The author doesn’t spend 200 pages waffling and trying to convince you of something you’re already dying to do, but just don’t know how to execute. All you have to do is follow the directions. No analyzing too many options, no trying to out-think the huge behemoth that is publishing industry. It’s like having a friend take you by the hand, set you down on the right path, and then walk right along side you. The added benefit is that on the way, you’ll find out some pretty interesting things about yourself and what your platform (so essential these days for getting published) is really all about.
For me, having clear cut steps and directions is invaluable when it comes figuring out what I really want to communicate to potential readers and how to get my platform established.
I know. I’m a writer, newly finished my first work (okay, here I’m going to plug it) “Over the Edge,” a fictionalized memoir, told in nine episodes, which tells what it’s really like to live, run, and be a part of the street life.
Kudos and Thanks, Teresa
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Much has been written in the past year or two about the importance to writers of having a “platform.” Writers without a platform, we are told, find it difficult if not impossible to be taken seriously by agents and publishers. This ambitious book takes a new approach to building a platform. Instead of the usual pep talks, it consists of a series of exercises–22 minutes for 22 days– to build the reader’s self-knowledge and skill. The exercises are often thought-provoking, and always fun. For all writers who find themselves “stuck” when it comes to building a platform, this is a most worthwhile tool.
Margaret Davis, author of Straight Down the Middle
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Judith Marshall “women’s fiction author”
Although I had already published my novel, “Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever,” and set up my website when I purchased this playbook, I found lots of information and tips I hadn’t known. I especially liked the exercises which helped me identify where to spend my time and energy. A great road map to building your writer platform.
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Ms. Ryan gives us a huge building block toward getting our gems into print. I tried her original draft of this book, doing the exercises, and being amazed how much i could put into a platform. Now she has expanded this workbook richly. She is a whiz in the ways a writer can get noticed.
in all the confusing technology around these days, this book takes a novice carefully through the process to this end.
It is quite a bargain at $22.
Lynn Scott, Memorist, A Joyous Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me
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Is There a Book to Help Writers Build Platform and Fanbase?
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW available through Amazon
Sincerely,
22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
http://writingcoachteresa.com