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Archway Publishing Writer’s Blog – Some sort of nice line about how Archway is great. Search Blog Guidelines Guidelines Recent Posts Follow Your Yellow Brick Road From Beginning to End Is it possible to live in a real life version of The Matrix? Writing the Great Historical Novel My Journey from Ideation to Publication There’s Always Room for Improvement During the Journey Categories Author Feature Editing General Marketing Publishing Publishing Expert Tips self-publishing tips Social Media Uncategorized Writing Search Widgets Search Archway Publishing Writer’s Blog Some sort of nice line about how Archway is great. Menu Our Promise Publishing Packages Services Resources Blog Bookstore My Account By Pamela Burba Every author dreams of writing the next cherished treasure like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. But where do you start? It’s always best to start at the beginning. And all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road.” – Glinda the Good Witch of Oz Is there something keeping you from getting started? Did Dorothy let the Wicked Witch of Oz stop her from taking that first step? Glinda the Good Witch of Oz was the first of many to encourage her to get on her path and stay on it no matter what. I’d love to encourage you to take that first step! So grab those ruby slippers and join me as I take you on my fairy special journey. My sister Cheryl and I loved when our Mother read us fairy tales as children. We always dreamed of creating a fairy tale that not only teaches children in a fun way but also lets the story continue from book to book. All we needed was…an idea for a fairy tale. Sometimes your story may be right under your nose. As it turns out, our idea was sitting there right in front of us all our lives. We just didn’t realize it until our cherished mother Dottie passed away at the age of ninety five. Our mother told us sweet story she over and over our entire lives. It involved me as a four-year-old trying to buy an ice cream cone with a penny I’d found. We were sitting around reminiscing about this story, and suddenly we realized THAT was our book idea. From a sweet simple story came the perfect idea for our fairy tale! Hooray, our feet were finally on that yellow brick road! Ice Cream and Sprinkles and Fairies! Oh my! –Pamela Burba If I could give one piece of advice it would be to have fun while you are creating your story. Just take your time and enjoy the journey! Much like Dorothy, our journey is full of wonderful stories that happened along the way that we will treasure forever. Once the Dottie Sprinkles character was created, the story began to fall into place Children would visit Dottie’s Fairy Special Ice Cream Shop and soon learn it was run by ice cream fairies. Dottie would teach gentle lessons to the children of Ferry Harbor. The love for our Mother just poured into the story. And so Dottie Sprinkles Fairy Special Ice Cream Shop was born. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.” – L. Frank Baum It helps to know your goal. Ours was to bring happiness to children by creating a magical way for them to learn gentle lessons. And just by reminiscing—brainstorming—we were able to find our idea, and the stories just poured out of us. Just like Dorothy kept her goal of getting home in front of her it helped us to never give up! Oh, look! There’s the Emerald City! Oh, we’re almost there at last!” – Dorothy Gale How exciting to reach the final step on the yellow brick road and reflect on what you hoped to accomplish when you started. For us it is our hope that children will cherish Dottie Sprinkles long after The Fairy Grandmothers have clicked the heels of their ruby shoes and headed home. Writing Follow Your Yellow Brick Road From Beginning to End November 8, 2018 archway Blog , children’s books , self-publishing , series , writing , writing inspiration Leave a comment Image Image Author Feature Is it possible to live in a real life version of The Matrix? July 24, 2018 Debasree Ghosh Leave a comment The following are the words of Kris Embrey, author of Tell Me You Want Me” andTill The Other Side of Time” . For more information on Kris or her book, find her on her website or her Facebook page. Download the Archway Publishing free publishing guide for more information on our supported self-publishing services. Imagine yourself completing your very first romance fiction novel and secure a publisher. Sounds good so far. But let’s say there’s a possibility you will meet the antagonist from your fiction story in real life. Would you change the antagonist storyline? Hollywood has done countless movies on the subject of manifestation. The Matrix is one example, but could you see yourself living within a real-life matrix? It happened just after my first book was released in March 2016 by Archway Publishing. Life as a writer took an interesting turn when fictional characters started to show up on my path. What I’d believed and thought about the spiritual world, would be challenged the day I’d met Mark Grant, and hearing the name Lex Lenord being paged over a P.A. system. Knowing this was more than a mere coincidence, as these were two fictional names used in my romance novel. One afternoon, and the same week my first book was published, I was reviewing a profile from a dating site I’d joined. The man who I’ll call Ray,” messaged me while I’d looked up at the sky, being memorized by a rainbow on a clear day. Replying back to Ray’s message, he seemed interested in meeting for coffee, making a plan to meet later in the week. That following Monday, sitting at work, Ray sent a message to see if we could meet up for a drink after work. On that same day, I’d gotten my e-book stubs in the mail from Archway, and my first book was now officially published. Putting a few in my purse, heading out the door, I set out to go meet Ray. At the bar, we ordered drinks and proceeded to have a great conversation. Talking with him, it felt like I’d known him a really long time, which was kind of unusual for me to hit it off with someone that fast. We paused and started looking into each other’s eyes and it got intense, I really like you,” he said, with a smile, wanting to know what I was thinking. Being to shy to answer back, only offering him a smile in his direction, he smiled back. What I really wanted to say was, Where have you been my entire life?” but the words didn’t come out. Our conversation would continue to flow the entire evening, as he asked questions of me being a writer. Reaching into my handbag, I pulled out one of the book stubs I’d gotten earlier that day, handing one to him, stating that I never expected him to ever read my romance novel. We continued to talk for a few more hours, then decided to end the night when he walked me to my car. A few days passed after our date, and the friend who suggested I join the dating site was in town for work. The hardbound version of my book had just delivered to my door. Pulling the books from the box, my friend had arrived at my house. I didn’t give my friend time to settle in, excitement took over my mouth telling him about Ray, babbling on how I met this great guy, thanking my friend for the suggestion to join the dating site. Grabbing my phone to show a photo that Ray and I, had taken at the bar. My friend was standing over my books sitting on the table, as he started to get a very odd facial expression while doing a double take of the books sitting on my table. My friend picked up my book said, are you kidding me? Look at this,” taking my phone to enlarge the photo, laid it next to my book; astounding to find that we were looking at the same person. You didn’t show Ray this did you?” My friend demanded, positioning that I did give Ray a book stub, but hadn’t noticed the similarity to the illustrated book cover. You manifested this guy.” My friend said, laughing shaking his head at me, as he walked away into the other room. I do admit, it was shocking to see the similarity of the cover...