Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim When I was 6 or 7 years old I caught a butterfly in a jar. My little girl innocence led me to believe that the butterfly would be happy in its glass prison. I put a leaf , the head of a aisy, and a few blades [...]
A Novel Approach to Picking up Customers
March 4, 2009 By 23 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim Maman est morte.–Albert Camus, L’Etranger The first line of a novel has the power to hook you as a reader and entice you to read more. The line may shock you with honesty, tease you with what is to come or set the scene for the story ahead. Some first [...]
For Love or Money?
February 24, 2009 By 7 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim William “Paul” Young is a writer and now thanks to viral word of marketing, and a little help from a friend he is a published best selling author. Young’s story is told in the February edition of Writer’s Digest and is aptly titled Cinderella Story. How many aspiring artists dream [...]
If You Really Loved Me
February 3, 2009 By 12 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim If you really love(d) me. Stevie Wonder sang it, author, Ann Rule wrote about its tragic turn and for centuries pubescent boys have uttered the words to girls reluctant to take the next step. The phrase, whether whispered in harmless flirtation or thrown down like a gauntlet becomes a veiled [...]
The Friendship that Ignited a Blog
December 17, 2008 By 31 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim This time last year, I was an occasional blogger. I had done a fair amount of ghostblogging for clients and had tackled a few posts for my own blogger blog. I started blogging in 2005 – well kind of, I wrote 7 posts that year and 3 [...]
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