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Interview with Author P.M. Terrell – New Release, Writing and Marketing

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Interview with Author P.M. Terrell – New Release, Writing and Marketing

Glenna Mageau, Award Winning Author, Speaker, Writing Coach

My interview with P.M. Terrell. We talk about her new release, a children’s book – The Adventures of Blade and Rye; writing – what inspires her and keys to writing; and marketing your book. 

 

Patricia McClelland Terrell, who writes under the pen name p.m. terrell, has had 21 books published in several genres, including her award-winning suspense novels and historical/adventure creative non-fiction. She has been writing full-time since 2002. Prior to that time, she founded and operated two computer companies in the Washington, DC area with a specialty in detecting cybercrime.

She is the co-founder of The Book ‘Em Foundation and the founder of the annual Book ‘Em North Carolina Writers Conference and Book Fair, which raises awareness of the link between high crime rates and high illiteracy rates.

She is also the founder of The Novel Business, which provides information on effective marketing and promotional techniques for the published author.

The Adventures of Blade and Rye is her first children’s book, which will be released on November 22, just in time for the holidays.

 

Her new book, The Adventures for Blade and Rye, is available for pre-order and is out as of Nov. 22. You can order her books from online or you can order this or any of her other books, from her website – https://pmterrell.com/wp/ – and you will get a signed copy mailed to you, (free shipping in Canada and the US). The signed copies is available only until this Christmas.

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The Adventures of Blade and Rye

“You might need to get out of your own way.”

Some Key Tips from our Chat

 

If the idea is meant to be there, it will stick around. So when you get an idea, play with it. Where does it go? Does it allow you to grow it?

If the idea is meaning you have to force it, then let it go. If it doesn’t flow, it’s not worth fighting with.

Are you passionate about your idea? Is it something that will stick with you for 5 or 6 months? Is it something you want to step into for that time? 

There is a difference between putting words down on paper and feeling those words as you write.

If you’re not passionate about what you’re writing, it comes through on the page.

If you are just pushing out words, then something will be missing in your writing.

If you force a story, you are missing something.

 

Be passionate about what you write!

 

Glenna Mageau, a prolific writer and award-winning suspense/thriller author. Having written most of her life, she is on a quest to inspire women to find their voice through writing. Writing is an amazing gift but it pulls and pushes at the same time. It pulls you to want to write but it also pushes you away. At times, it can feel daunting and you may find you become proficient at procrastination. I can help you to get started and keep going so that you get your story, your message written. Step into your gift of writing, I’ll show you the way.

Write for the Love of it!

It’s a Day to Honor Women

Write for the Love of it!

Woman, You are Beautiful

It’s a Day to Honor Women

Glenna Mageau, Award Winning Author, Speaker, Writing Coach

There’s one thing I know…

Women are beautiful, on every level.

Women have so many gifts and talents and are truly inspiring.

 

I have had the amazing pleasure of interviewing women over the age of 70, who stepped outside the norm for their day and age – they worked or got educated.

Now today that doesn’t sound like much. Women get educated and work all the time. Women now hold jobs from cashier to Prime Minister to running their own successful businesses. Women are getting PhD’s in every faculty. Women are holding down important jobs. But it wasn’t always this way. And if it weren’t for the women before us who did try something different then we’d all still be locked in roles where we weren’t always respected or honored.

Today is International Woman’s Day.

It is a day to honor all women – past, present and future. Women are making amazing changes in the world. We are starting to see our value and therefor each other. We are starting to lift each other up. To be there for each other. To see the good in each other even when we don’t always show up that way.

Women supporting women in going for their dreams, is one of the greatest gifts of our day.

It is a day to honor each other and ourselves. Recognize all that you’ve done. Recognize all that you want to do. And know that it is possible.

Women honor who you are

You inspire by being you.

What did I learn?

 

The truth is that everyone has a story. Everyone has been through some hard times. Everyone has had some good times. It’s what you focus on and hold onto that matters.

And every one of the women that I interviewed had wanted something different, so they found a way to make it happen. Some had support to do that and some didn’t.

“Women are the gift of change.”

Women are fascinating. They are strong and independent, they are soft and loving and everything in between.

But…

We forget our value. We forget to honor ourselves and who we are.

The one thing that each of the women I interviewed had in common was that they didn’t see what they had done as anything special or outside the norm. But it truly was. Some had to overcome some incredible odds to do what they did.

Just to give you an idea of why it was something pretty special:

– in the early 1950’s 24% of women were working

– only 20% of those attending post secondary were women. For an example: My mom graduated from University in 1951, 1 of 2 women in a class of 126

Now imagine this:

– they had no cell phones
They had to find a phone to use and then they couldn’t use it often as it was too expensive.
And some of the families didn’t have a phone either.

– they didn’t have emails.
To keep in touch they sent letters that could take weeks or months to arrive.

– they didn’t have transportation
They had to rely on trains, buses and even horse and wagons.

– they didn’t have supports
Sometimes they were very isolated, no one to ask for help, no or little resources to do their jobs

What I love about the times we’re in, is that anything is possible.

Today, it’s time to stop and thank all the women in your life, all the women who have come before you and all the women who are currently in your life.

Each one of us has lived with and struggled with our own beliefs of not being enough.

But it’s time to change that and to know that what you do matters. Who you are matters.

 

We are enough…

 

If there is anything that you spend time on today – focus on how you show up. How can you brighten someone else’s day today?

I’d love to hear what you do.

She Believes… in Herself!

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She Believes… in Herself

 

Glenna Mageau, Award Winning Author, Speaker, Writing Coach
She takes a step… and then another…

She leaps…

She works hard…

She inspires…

She gives freely…

She dances…

She follows her dreams…

She forgives…

She stands her ground…

She heals…

She takes the challenge…

She climbs…

She gives her shoulder to cry on…

She flies…

She dusts herself off and keeps going…

She lives…

She is discovering her true potential…

She believes…

She chooses her destination…

She dreams…

She sheds her tears…

She smiles…

She is grateful…

She laughs…

She is capable…

She believes…

She is strong…

She loves…

She is beautiful, smart and worthy…

 

She is a woman!

Beautiful, smart, funny, inspiring, gifted…

She is You!

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She… is a woman.
“She believes… in herself!”
Glenna Mageau, a prolific writer and award-winning suspense/thriller author. Having written most of her life, she is on a quest to inspire women to find their voice through writing. Writing is an amazing gift but it pulls and pushes at the same time. It pulls you to want to write but it also pushes you away. At times, it can feel daunting and you may find you become proficient at procrastination. I can help you to get started and keep going so that you get your story, your message written. Step into your gift of writing, I’ll show you the way.

 

Write for the Love of it!

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