by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 12, 2022 | Let's Talk About Writing, One Writer's Journey
Every reader and every writer has a pet peeve. Mine happens to be the overuse of exclamation points. In his “10 Rules,” Elmore Leonard says: “Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 5, 2022 | One Writer's Journey
I’m the only child of two very strict European immigrant parents (no sleepovers for this kid). Both have passed on, my father at age 42 (stomach cancer) and my mother in 2016 after a lengthy battle with COPD. But while they are no longer a physical presence in...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 26, 2022 | My Marketing Journey, My Publishing Journey
Marketing books can be a bit of a full-time job (and not one I particularly enjoy…I like writing them, but the publicity part is far from second nature to me). That said, every now and again I’ll try something new. Here goes: The Superior Shores...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 19, 2022 | Let's Talk About Writing, One Writer's Journey
It was February of 2000 when I first met Barry Dempster, an award-winning poet and author. He was the instructor at my very first creative writing workshop, and as I recall, there were about a dozen of us huddled into the basement of the Holland Landing Public...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 12, 2022 | Let's Talk About Writing, One Writer's Journey
Elmore Leonard started out writing westerns, then turned his talents to crime fiction. One of the most popular and prolific writers of our time, he wrote about two dozen novels, most of them bestsellers, such as Glitz, Get Shorty, Maximum Bob, and Rum Punch. Unlike...
