Posts by Ann Garvin
The Book Is Dead! Long Live the Book!
How to Save Books and Keep Reading What You Love *Pick Two* Talk about the books you love. Not just the big famous ones. Leave a review on Amazon or BN.com or Goodreads or all “Like” the book on Amazon, or “Like” the author’s Facebook Fan page, invite your friends to “Like” Authors need people…
Read MoreSuccess tips #4, #5, #6
Stick to your guns when you are right Revise when you are wrong Have the wisdom to know the difference (there’s your tweet) If this sounds suspiciously like the AA credo, well I can’t argue with you there. It’s important to know in both writing and life who you are. It’s important to know who…
Read MoreHow to be a successful writer (SNHU graduation speech 2013)
When the MFA class of 2013 graduated I was able to get in the last word, which of course I love. Among other things, I provided a list of 15 items for success as a writer. Actually, if you just read 1 through 14 you will find the 14 things you need to be successful…
Read MoreSuccess Tip #2 and #3
It’s sounds so obvi (as my daughter would say) To be a successful author you have to try It’s like Pink says: You’ve gotta get up and try, and try, and try. My best friend in high school was good at everything and so I pretended I was too. It was like taking a vitamin. I…
Read MoreSuccess Tip #1
Take your meds. Whatever meds they be. Maybe your “meds” are your friends. Maybe you need to eat carbohydrates despite the fact that they are wrongly considered the meth of this dietary generation. It’s possible you need really nice cotton t-shirts or fresh flowers every 3rd Wednesday of the month. It’s very possible that you…
Read MoreAll you need to know about marketing and losing weight
The only way for food and alcohol companies to make money is if you over eat, binge drink or generally over consume. It’s not enough for companies to get us to try their products we have to consume them regularly and over consume them for profits to continue to rise. So now that you…
Read MoreThis is why weight loss can be so hard…
Did you know that if Hershey’s kisses are placed on desk of secretaries in a clear jar consumed the secretaries will consume the kisses 46% more quickly than those in opaque jars. Also, People will eat 125 cal/day more if candy is on desk vs 6 feet away from where people do most of their work.…
Read MoreHey sweet heart put that bottle down
I knew plastic bottles of water were terrible for the earth but didn’t know the extent of it until I watched this video. No ore bottles for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0 Well, sometimes a plastic bottle is hard to avoid but I’m going to try really hard to carry a water bottle that I refill. Tweet: I dont…
Read MoreThe First Lady (of nutrition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLA7THDlDw Marion Nestle (no relation to chocolate) tells truth. If you ever wonder what is right regarding nutrition Marion Nestle clears through all the misinformation. Her Food Politics website is invaluable for nutrition information Foodpolitics.com and her books, What To Eat, Food Politics, Why Calories Count, each are wonderful and must reads. Her information isn’t going…
Read MoreExercise is the pill…
It just takes you 1/2 hour to swallow it. This will make you feel silly about not fitting exercise into your life. I know how hard it is, believe me, but I think you will love this quickie movie.
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