New book coming

 Hi There, I haven't been posting for months since devoting all my time to living around Covid and rewriting my bipolar memoir, Episodes. I'm almost done extensive revisions and improvements and expect to publish by February 2021 (actually July 2021). The new version is completely revised as you can tell by the new title, Coffee, Cigarettes, Death & Mania.

Cof, Cigs, Death & Mania will be shorter and more concise, more action and dialogue packed, but will still focus on main themes of Yes, millions of people are bipolar, There is help, and There is hope for normal life, family, and work between episodes. Also, how caregivers can weather the storms and be better prepared.

I've also been busy handling my editing, formatting, polishing, and publishing business, ABLiA Media, to help writers in any genre achieve their best work. Recently I helped writer Marion Pollack edit, format, and publish on Amazon her hilarious memoir Grandma Tell Us a Story. Other works I have similarly helped with are The Man Who Never Slept by Robert Quinn, Unbalanced Justice by Samuel L Naro, and two books by Dr.  Michael P. Riccards, A Hero of My Own Life and some of his Italian Grandpa stories. I have helped more than a dozen writers publish with tips, editing, format suggestions, grammar assistance, publishing, and critiques.

I am very active with both the Hamilton and Lawrence NJ Creative Writers Groups, critique and encouragement groups for writers who share their work and receive critical feedback. I started the Hamilton Group in 2011. Both groups meet weekly and both are listed on MeetUp.com. We meet on Zoom now, and if interested in joining for free, email me at rodwriter80@gmail.com and I will connect you up. Participating in both groups weekly since 2011, and others, I have listened to, critiqued, and offered suggestion and tips for improvement on over 3,000 pieces from over 100 writers and poets.

This Blog, Write with Authority, will focus on my observations, tips, and highlights from others on how to improve one's writings and poems, prose and poetry. As a State of New Jersey technical writer for 30 years, and an author since 2013, I have the experience and life knowledge to help you do your best, to publish, and to succeed. My second published book in 2018 was Solving the World's Titanic Struggles, a compendium of 100 short essays on current topics and questions, with a spiritual base of solutions. Solving is available on Amazon.

A poetry tip for example: Use enjambment. That is the way you end the line, with what word or words, and move to the next. Take "The deer came down from the mountain."  Boring.

What if it were:

The deer came

d

  o

    w

       n

from the mountain.

See? Very different. Unique, impactful. Leaves an impression.

So hope to see you more often on these pages as I create more posts for your consideration.

Best,

Rodney Richards