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scribequill

Bev Walton-Porter has been a professional writer/editor for ten years. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, both online and in print.

She is the author of Sun Signs for Writers (Writer’s Digest Books), Mending Fences (Whiskey Creek Press), and co-author of The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential (Red...more »
  • Colorado Springs, Co, USA
  • member since Tuesday, July 24 2007

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  • gothcat

    gothcat says

    Margaret--my roommate--is on here, too. Phoenixphire(like her Lj) is on here. She liked your book. :)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • gothcat

    gothcat says

    HIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!! BEV!!!!! When did you get on here?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ajay

    ajay says

    WISHING YOU A GREAT YEAR AHEAD. THIS NEW YEAR MAY BE FILLED WITH ALL THE SUCCESS, PROSPERITY AND GROWTH.IT MAY BRING EVERYTHING YOU LIKE AND DESIRE.

    HAVE A GREAT 2008.
    Happiness deep down within.
    Serenity with each sunrise.
    Success in each facet of your life.
    Family beside you.
    Close and caring friends.
    Health, inside you.
    Love that never ends.
    Special memories of all the yesterdays.
    A bright today with much to be thankful for.
    A path that leads to beautiful tomorrows.
    Dreams that do their best to come true.
    Appreciation of all the wonderful things about you.



    Wishing you lots of Happiness, Success, Love n Good health




    Warm Regards…

    AJAY
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    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anjuelle

    anjuelle says

    Thanks so much for accepting my offer of friendship. Please check out my book, "Keeper of Secrets...Translations of an Incident," at my website: http://anjuellefloyd.com

    Have a great day.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • carolynhowardjohnson

    carolynhowardjohnson says

    Cutie Bev:

    Because you are a Shelfari friend, I thought I'd pass on to you a quiz I'm using to promote my new book, the 2nd in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers after the award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter.

    The Frugal Editor is a must for writers and includes lots of good stuff important for any writer to know. It is, ta da! The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.

    Check Your Sell-Your-Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz


    Every writer should know the answer to these or know how to find out :


    1. What is the rule posted by most agents and publishers I can break in order to sell my book faster?
    2. How can a style sheet help me edit my book or work better with my editor?
    3. Why do I need to know about indexing?
    4. How can I corral Word's Spell Checker to help rather than hinder my editing process?
    5. Why is editing important to getting a publisher or an agent when my publisher's editor will help me with that anyway?
    6. Why should I rarely send out a cover letter rather than a query letter?
    7. Why should I avoid using italics for internal dialogue? How do you avoid using them for internal dialogue?
    8. What perfectly natural and grammar-perfect thing should I avoid telling an agent?
    9. How can I turn adverbs that slow my narrative into metaphors?
    10. How can I purge my copy of passive constructions using a computer?
    11. How can code words in my document help avoid humiliation?
    12. How do I avoid superfluous quotation marks that annoy agents and editors?


    If you don't know the answers to most every one of these 12 questions without peeking you are sure to benefit from the newly released

    The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success
    available now on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/

    It's already rocketed to Amazon's Top Ten List in its category!

    It should be sitting on your shelf right next to the award-winning* first in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers,
    The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't
    by UCLA Extension Writers' Program Instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson

    *Winner of USA Book News Best Professional Book 2004
    *Winner of Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mplcreative

    mplcreative says

    Hello Bev! How are you? I am a busy woman, here. I am in grad school, working full time and am also working for Dr. Dan Skelton doing publicist work and also trying to agent him. I just met with him Saturday. Sheesh. What IS sleep???

    I need to write something for Scribe and Quill and also for Horror Writers. I'll get to that as soon as I can.

    Hope all is well.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ~*~*heidi*~*~

    ~*~*heidi*~*~ says

    i love your bookshelf!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rockymtnrob65

    rockymtnrob65 says

    Well, well, well...look who I found here! I just told a friend about your book the other day and is very eager to get a copy. Hope you're doing well!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sallysaurus

    sallysaurus says

    "The Holographic Universe?" That sounds amazing. Is it a technical read, or is it written for schmoes like me who love concepts more than pages and pages of footnoted annotations?

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    Hi, again... and thank you for your note. I'm in deadline hell. I have fewer than ten days to write 300 pages, so please forgive me if I go quiet!

    Rowena Cherry

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    Hi, Scribequill,

    Thank you for the friendship request! I came to accept and found it had vanished, so am responding this way.

    Best wishes,
    Rowena Cherry

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • gkgarrison

    gkgarrison says

    Scribequill, do you know where Guthrie, Oklahoma is? I could never find it on the map. It's where Hube Yates (From Thunder to Breakfast) was born.

    Your background sounds interesting.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • gkgarrison

    gkgarrison says

    I notice that you are one of my friends, yet I don't believe I've communicated with you yet.

    It's a coincidence, but I have a chapter in my book THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT CAVE CREEK (It's The People) titled
    MENDIN' FENCES — the same title of one YOUR books. There's a lot of social drinking in my book too — and one of your publishers is WHISKEY CREEK PRESS.

    Is it as interesting to you as it is to me?

    Gene K. Garrison

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JDVine_Publications

    jdvine_publications says

    That's what I'm thinking. But maybe the best deal they'd give us is a free pet cloning.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JDVine_Publications

    jdvine_publications says

    Ah yes, I need a clone as well! Perhaps if we go for cloning together they'll give us a discount.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • anemulligan

    anemulligan says

    Nice to meet you, too! :o)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JDVine_Publications

    jdvine_publications says

    Wow! I'll be checking these sites out. You seem to be quite the busy one!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JDVine_Publications

    jdvine_publications says

    I'm delighted to meet you as well. I hope you enjoy the site. Do you have a website I can check out?

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JDVine_Publications

    jdvine_publications says

    Your credentials are impressive. Thanks for adding me as a friend. Stop by and chat sometime.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • gkgarrison

    gkgarrison says

    Hi, Scribequill!
    Welcome to the group.
    I'm impressed by your Writer's Digest book. Haven't read it,
    but am impressed. That's not easy to do.

    I too am a friend of Carolyn Howard-Johnson.

    ggarrison
    www.authorsden.com/ggarrison

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )


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