My Big Fat Greek Referendum

When I first started my blog, I vowed to steer clear from issues like politics and religion. However, I’ll make a rare exception today. You see, a lot of people have kindly been asking me what’s happening in Greece. With everything they see on their TVs,...

Writing and Body Language

I don’t often reblog, but when I stumbled across this great resource of body language, I just had to share. I keep something similar in a word doc, which I always have open when writing. I promise to share, as soon as I have organized it a bit better 🙂

Measuring Time, Author-Style

Now, please don’t get me wrong. I love helping out others, especially Indie authors. After all, I wouldn’t be here today had not some lovely people taken the time to help me out. However, I do suffer from a chronic shortage of time. This is partly because...

Any Ol’ Word Will Do

What’s in a word? “The constant interchange of design ideas between architects and clients; clients and their friends; architects and their peers is one of design’s most distinctive qualities, yet it is often neglected by researchers,” I read...

We are storytellers. Once again, with pride

What’s that well called? There once was a well, in the middle of a field. It was known, quite unimaginatively, as the well in the field. Then, one morning, the farmer who owned the field found a drowned body inside. Shocked, the nearby villagers changed the well’s...

Greek Orthodox Easter

Tomorrow is the Greek Orthodox Easter. Pretty much the same as that celebrated by any other Christian denomination, you may think, and you would be partly right. For, you see, Easter is a really big deal over here. Bigger than Christmas (I can practically hear the...

Your Fish Has Got Away and other Unusual Translations

The original, short version of this post was written for the Book Marketing Tools blog. This longer version was written as a guest post for Vanessa Finaughty’s blog. One of the best ideas of Douglas Adams had to be the Babelfish. Just stick it into your ear and...

Your Advice

Wow! Just… Wow! Since yesterday, I’ve already had 30 wonderfully helpful comments. I can’t thank you enough! I’ve refrained from replying until everyone has had a chance to speak, so I’ll wait another day or two before I properly respond....

RRBC Awards: we won!

Remember how I had asked you to vote for my blog in the Rave Reviews Book Club awards? Well, you did it! My blog won first place in the Best Blog category, and my On the Shelf interview won second place! Surprisingly enough, these were not the only awards I won, as I...