Marla Miller’s MtheM Curriculum: Resource Center For Writers
M-the-M Curruculum Overview: What Visitors Will Find Here
Welcome to MarlaMiller.com, home of MarketingTheMuse, a writers resource website that since 2007 has been viraling its way into the e-mailboxes of writers on the road to publication.
When first launched, I wasn't sure what MarketingtheMuse.com would be. I just knew I wanted to fashion it after my real time workshops. In early 2010, I added Quick Query Critique videos. Soon after launching QQC, Skype Author Interview Series was added.
Today marks the first day of MarketingtheMuse's new home, incorporated it into MarlaMiller.com for this reason: long before I was a workshop leader/coach, I was a writer. And like you, I don't write to tuck work away in my hard drive. MarlaMiller.com profiles my career and includes projects-in-progress. Soon, it will also include projects whose progress was stopped by time constraints or rejection letters.
As a MarlaMiller.com launch gift, subscribers can download a Complimentary 40-minute real time Quick Query Critique Workshop and learn without leaving home. The workshop offers several query critiques and other valuable information writers need to know. It also demonstrates my teaching style which is no nonsense, direct and I'd like to think, kind. Because of my partnership with writer/filmmaker Vickie Patik, this video workshop is the first of many. Her editing eye is exceptional and our 40-minute complimentary video offers proof! Vickie Patik''s website simpatkofilmworks.com delivers more information about this award-winning screenwriter/documentarian and consultant I'm grateful to call 'friend.'
In 21st century publishing world we now live in, every writer needs a web strategist; mine is Jeremy Lee James of www.writeclickmedia.com. Jeremy is a writer who understands writers' goals. His day job includes creating writer websites that is, when he's not pitching his own work. For several years, he has walked me through this process of web publishing/viraling. I highly recommend him.
In these tough times, we hope MarlaMiller.com and MarketingtheMuse fill the gap created when the economy tanked and expendable funds dried up. While nothing's free--yes, soon products will be sold here, too--for those writers whose extra funds are limited, there's still lots here that won't cost a penny and will help advance you down your road to publication. Currently, we do have one product for sale-a real time workshop offered to writers in the LA/Ventura/Santa Barbara area. Click 'News & Announcements' for details re: MtheM: The Road to Publication & Platform Building Workshop
For all visitors, our goal at MarlaMiller.com is to deliver a website that serves as a mini-writers conference--a good 'hangout' site for authors hoping to publish. Please visit often. Look for postings of contests, giveaways and interviews that will include industry Pros sharing what they’ve learned along publishing’s highway. Please tell us what you want to know more about.
And pretty please, tell your writer-ly friends about MarlaMiller.com & MarketingtheMuse
MarketingTheMuse Curriculum In Brief:
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Platform building tools
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Industry news worth knowing
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Self publishing’s inroads
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Complimentary (video) Quick Query Critiques
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Complimentary Skype Author Interviews
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Agent/Editor Speak
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Workshops/webinars
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Marla Miller's Blog speak
Beyond this, I don’t have a view but I don’t need to see the entire road, a lesson I learned from Anne Lamott when she spoke in 1995. It was the year after her bestselling book on craft, Bird by Bird, debuted. She was working on a novel and didn’t know the ending. She quoted a noted novelist who compared novel writing to driving at night down a dark, winding road. You just need enough light to see what’s ahead.
Until we meet again, keep your lights on.