Marilyn's Musings

     Your first book was just released! Your shipment is on its way and should arrive next week!  Have you sent out galleys to reviewers, to radio shows and announced it on Twitter, Face-book and to everyone you know? Why not have a party? More than likely, it took you at least two and a half years, more or less, to write the book, not to include the time you spent researching it, forming characters, writing and re-writing once the editor had looked at it. Now, you have corrected any errors there might be. It's as polished as you believe it can be. It's your baby! Not all authors have their own editors go over their manuscripts, but I do, at least, before I send it to an agent or a publisher. I realize that any traditional publisher, no matter how large will have their own editors on staff, but I want my book to be just as perfect and polished as it can possibly be.  Now, it's time for the book release party, the first thing to do is to deci...

Why are people more apt to judge a “book by its cover” than not?                          What is it about the attractive stranger? We attribute characteristic such as intelligence, status, trust, and good genes to them because on the surface, they are beautiful people. The general thought seems to be, “If they are beautiful, they must be trustworthy and nice.             People go out of the way to help attractive people because they want to be well liked and accepted by good looking people. Studies of babies indicate they look more intently and longer at attractive people. Are they accepting them or are they trying to look more deeply into the interior?                         In Myt...