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Author Archives: Mara Purl
Blog Tour Visit #3: Romance Junkies
What fun to be featured today as a guest of Www.RomanceJunkies.com. Though they chose a tongue-in-cheek name, their elegant site reveals a multitude of cross-connected authors and readers actively engaged in every aspect of Romance Fiction.
Founded in 2003 by Kat Brown, the site now has 60 reviewers, scores of author links, ten categories, and 2,500 loyal followers who communicate with one another on a regular basis through forums, and 1 million hits per month.
A key part of the site is the Romance Junkies Blog, where I’m the featured guest today, www.RomanceJunkies.com/RJBlog/?p=1150, as are my new books When Hummers Dream (free e-book this month) and What the Heart Knows (hardcover next month).… Read more
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Blog Tour Visit #2: National Association of Baby Boomer Women
Today I have the distinct honor of being the featured guest at the National Association of Baby Boomer Women—www.NABBW.com. Director Anne Holmes (“Boomer in Chief”, as she’s titled) asked me a series of intriguing questions as the second stop on my national blog tour. You can find it by clicking the pink “BLOG” button in the upper right, or by clicking on this link. http://www.nabbw.com/blog/2011/08/mara-purl-launches-virtual-book-tour/. I’ll also be featured in Anne’s monthly newsletter at www.BoomerWomensWorld.com.
So what’s a Boomer woman? A woman born between 1946 and 1964. Why is this group of people so interesting? First of all, because we number 35 million.… Read more
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Launching the Blog Tour Boat
For authors, a book tour comes with the territory when a new book is released. Authors often fly from city to city in an exhausting tour-de-force, appearing on local talk shows, speaking to reporters, signing their new book at bookstores, and maybe visiting a few book clubs along the way. Traditional tours like this aren’t done as often as they used to be, what with budget constraints and new methods of marketing. Still—unless we’re also speakers—we authors don’t get out much! So we won’t be denied our fun. I’m looking forward to the wonderful in-person tour stops I’ll be doing next fall.… Read more
Posted in Acting, Authors on Talk Shows, Bellekeep Books, Blog Tours, Books, careers, Collaboration with other writers, Connecting through books, Creativity, Current Event, history, Innovative marketing, Innovative marketing, Love of Books, Mara Purl, Mara Purl using new marketing methods for Books, Marketing, Milford Haven, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, musician-singer-songwriter, new methods of marketing books, News reporting, Publishing, relationships, Romantic fiction, screenwriting and acting, Small Presses, Transformation, Travel, Uncategorized, Virtual Book Tours, Virtual Book Tours, Women's Fiction, Writing
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Love the Little Ones
Time with grandchildren is pure gold . . . and silver, platinum and diamonds.
Posted in AHA Moments, Books, California, Creativity, Family values, flow of life, Gratitude, head and heart connection, head and heart connection, Heart, inspiring through fiction novels, Intuition, Journaling, joy, Love, Love of Books, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, Music, Nurturing the soul, of lives through books, Personal Essays, Publishing, Re-Build your Life, relationships, seashells, self-growth, Transformation, transformation through AHA moments, Uncategorized, What the Heart Knows, Women's Fiction, Writing
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Love the Space Shuttle
Memoire of Shuttle Columbia's first landing in the Mojave.
Posted in Associated Press, Books, careers, Current Event, current events, history, Journaling, Journalism, Mara Purl, Milford Haven, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, News reporting, Personal Essays, Power of Universe, Publishing, Science, Travel, Uncategorized, What the Heart Knows, Women's Fiction, Writing
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History as Heart Stories
History---political, emotional, spiritual---is ultimately personal story. Tracing my own ancestors, I found an amazing connection to Milford-Haven!
Posted in American Revolution, Books, careers, Creativity, familial history, family history and genealogy, Family values, head and heart connection, head and heart connection, Heart, history, Intuition, Journaling, life's purpose, Louis L'amour, Mara Purl, Milford Haven, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, of lives through books, Opening up to New Worlds, Political history, Re-Build your Life, relationships, sychronicity of life, synchronicity, Transformation, Uncategorized, Western Fiction, What the Heart Knows, Writing
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Love Coastal Flights
Seeing a coastline from the air suggests a metaphor of seeing the border between head and heart, logic and emotion.
Posted in air travel, Books, California, careers, Coastal regions, Connecting through books, Creativity, Fictitious town of Milford-Haven, flow of life, head and heart connection, head and heart connection, Heart, Journaling, Logical Thinking, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, of lives through books, Opening up to New Worlds, Pat Methany, Personal Essays, Power of the universe, Publishing, Re-Build your Life, relationships, Romantic fiction, Small Town Fiction, Songwriters, Transformation, Travel, Uncategorized, What the Heart Knows, Women's Fiction, Writing
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Father Love
Men who wear their hearts on their sleeves are stronger than they may appear.
Posted in Acting, Associated Press, Audio Drama, Books, careers, Connecting through books, Creativity, current events, Heart, inspiring through fiction novels, Integrating lifes purpose through art, Japan, Journalism, Love, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Men wearing hearts on sleeves, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, musician-singer-songwriter, of lives through books, Personal Essays, Publishing, relationships, screenwriting and acting, self-growth, Small Town Fiction, Soap Opera Fiction, synchronicity, Transformation, Travel, Uncategorized, What the Heart Knows, Women's Fiction, Writing
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Suitcase Whisperer
Lessons to a frequent traveler from her suitcase.
Posted in AHA Moments, Books, careers, Creativity, flow of life, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Heart, inspiring through fiction novels, Integrating lifes purpose through art, Intuition, life's purpose, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Metaphors, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, musician-singer-songwriter, Novel series, Nurturing the soul, Opening up to New Worlds, Personal Essays, Power of the universe, Publishing, Re-Build your Life, relationships, self-growth, synchronicity, Transformation, transformation through AHA moments, Travel, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction, Writing
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June Gloom and Magical Moments
For those of us who live in California coastal regions, this time of year is known as June Gloom. While other parts of the country are enjoying the first blush of summer with its dreamy warmth and slower pace, we often awaken to a heavy marine layer that keeps the landscape wrapped in a blanket for the first few hours of the day.
It’s not nearly as “gloomy” as it sounds. After all, “sunny California” gets plenty of bright days. This may sound perverse—maybe it’s my Celtic roots—but I sometimes reach a point of finding the succession of unchangingly sunny days oppressive, and begin to long for rain.… Read more
Posted in Books, California, careers, Coastal regions, Creativity, flow of life, Heart, ideas for books, inspiring through fiction novels, Integrating lifes purpose through art, Journaling, joy, life's purpose, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, Novel series, Nurturing the soul, of lives through books, Personal Essays, Power of the universe, power of the universe, Publishing, Re-Build your Life, Romantic fiction, self-growth, sychronicity of life, Transformation, Travel, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction, Writing
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