Presto! My attempt at an advertising flyer follows. Click here: Women & Children First - Sunday, 2/13, 4:30pm Take a respite from the cold and warm up with chatter at this Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self event!
Category: writing
Giga Alerts Finds New Review of Caring Lessons
So, do you know about Giga Alerts? A free web alerting service that tracks your name, for example, when it shows up on the web? I get an email every few weeks that shows where my name--because that's what I've asked them to track for me--shows up on the web. To get even more results, …
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Airlines Promoting Travel Wear
Did you know that airline companies are now advertising travel wear at check-in? The four-piece, wrinkle-free, mix and match ensemble, plus shoes, which will transport you seamlessly from daytime to evening wear? What? You didn’t know? You haven’t seen the ads? Well, neither have I--because they are not viewable. They are only implied. By baggage …
Writing today? Think beauty.
From a floral arrangement in our lobby.
Finis! November Novel
I'm finished. I can do it. I can write 50,000 words of a first draft of a novel in 30 days. I can write with putting my editor out in the cold where it belongs. I can write even after I've said I have no time to do something as outrageous as committing to writing …
November Novel, Anyone?
Yes, I'm writing a November Novel this year. Oh, you didn't ask? Well, you should have. Because it's consuming my life, and I want everyone to know it. Sound vain? That's okay. I finally can fully appreciate what a writing friend of mine did the last two November's while I frittered away my November's doing …
“Caring Lessons” Book Launch Party
"That is great that you thought of having a book launch party, Lois," a newly published author friend of mine told me recently. "I wish I would have thought of it. And now it's too late." I sort of always knew that if I ever got my book published, I would have to do something …
Nurse Turned Author – The First Week
Chaos. In one word, since Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self came about a week ago, life has been chaos. Fun chaos, but chaos. I've been plodding down the list of promotion strategies I listed here a few weeks back. The plod is the work, the responses the reward. So many …
Countdown – ZERO Weeks Until Publication!
Order Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self NOW! It is here; scroll down to see a pictorial review. Make check payable to: Trinity Christian College (On the memo line, write "Book/Roelofs Freshman Nursing Scholarship”) In the amount of $16.50 ($13.99 per book, plus $2.51 S/H) Mail to: Lois Roelofs, PO Box …
A Lakefront Walk in Chicago
Where's Waldo, I mean the ferris wheel, at Navy Pier? Shimmering Lake Michigan! Here's the ferris wheel-up close. Rock barriers Prairie grasses
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