A Blog’s Makeover

Dear Reader,

One day my blog and I were feeling blue and really blogged down. We had a little chitchat (ha! ha!) and decided that we were restricted in being a writers notebook when the blog had expanded to become so much more. Quite literally we felt that we were stuck in a rut, so the only thing to do was to get a complete makeover.

So, with a nip and tuck here and there and a little bit of liposuction, botox injections and a new warddrobe this blog is new and improved.

• New name; Paperback Writer, the title is less restrictive than Chitchat and All That and focuses on the new pathway. Being a tour coordinator with Pump Up Your Book Promotion and a Freelance Writer has expanded my horizons and I’ve enjoyed each author interview at the blog. 
• New design; sort of the same width as a paperback book. Makes you feel like you’re reading one. Now, if only the blog would allow you to actually turn the page rather than reading down the screen. To me that’s still the most annoying thing about computers, having to scroll down to read.
• Comments link;  is now easier to see. This blog is here for you, the reader,  so I invite you to leave a comment.
• New date;  it’s a bold as the day sitting in the left corner 
• New tags;  if you can’t find the blog in the future, you might remember one of the tags and can search that way.

Posts that remain the same will include;

• Word of the Day;  this has gotten some great comments. Nothing can advance my writing more than challenging myself to find books that provide new words outside of my vocabulary.  
• Question of the week; this will be featured on a weekly basis 
• Featured authors;  will continue to be spotlighted and maybe we can get some more authors to stop by.

I invite you to visit often and leave comments.

Happy Halloween and Happy Reading!

Writing Question of the Week – What’s Your Day Job?

The image of the writer’s life can be glamorous. Do you picture literary authors sitting in a library/office with an oak desk and walnut bookshelves that overlooks an sweeping view of a meadow or trees? Doesn’t it just sound magical?  Maybe, if you’re a well know author like Stephen King, Dean Koontz or JK Rowlings these things are possible, but for the rest of us we still have our day jobs and somehow must find time to write after all of our other responsibilities are completed.

Always wonder what those famous writers did for their day job?

Here are a few;

William Faulkner, author of The sound and The Fury, Light in August among other novels, served as a post master for the University of Mississippi post office.

Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick was a customs inspector for the New York Harbor Authority.

Walt Whitman, poet and author of Leaves of Grass, was a typesetter, a journalist, an itinerant school teacher, and a newspaper editor.

Zane Grey, author of Thunder Mountain among other novels practiced dentistry.

Alice Munro, author of Runaway among other novels, picked tobacco while a university student.

E.B. white, author of Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Elements of Style, sold roach powder and played the piano.

What’s your day job and what do you write?