Jade Alyse Writes

7 Ways to Build Your Reputation As a Writer

7 Ways to Build Your Reputation As a Writer

It’s easy to label yourself a writer. Jot down a poem and call yourself a scribe. But building a reputation for yourself as a writer is the evidence others need to label you a writer. Whether good or bad, writers’ reputations follow them wherever they go, either paving the way for success or putting up roadblocks in the path to getting published or developing a readership. It’s essential that creative writers take into consideration the way their peers, literary agents, editors, and readers view not only the quality of their writing, but their credentials and career path as well. It’s far easier to create a solid, professional reputation than to undo the damage of a spotty record and poor public persona.

 
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Jan Berenstain Dies at 88; Created Berenstain Bears

Jan Berenstain Dies at 88; Created Berenstain Bears

Jan Berenstain, who with her husband wrote and illustrated theBerenstain Bears books, gentle best-sellers that enlightened preschoolers for half a century with simple lessons about kindness and tidiness, and reasons not to be afraid of the doctor, died on Friday in Solebury, Pa. She was 88.

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COMING March 16th: "Rusted Halo" - A Short Story by Jade Alyse

Two estranged sisters. One wedding. A sneaky groom. One murder. And a mute teenager who witnesses it all. 

Rusted Halo was selected for presentation at the Creative Writer's Conference at University of California - Fullerton.