The Muse First Year Anniversary Approaching
The MuseItUp Club will be celebrating their very first anniversary on the sixth of September. A whole year has come and gone and what a buzz it's been.



If you link above and then to go our PUBLISHING NEWS link, you will get an opportunity to read some of our members accomplishments in getting published. Some of these publication venues may help you find another venue for your own writing.

We've had several contests. We started our First Annual Book Project in January, to be published with Double Dragon Publication in February 2006. It is a jam-packed writing book with 18 writers offering you a variety of subjects to spruce up your writing. The book is THE MUSE ON WRITING.

We started a FlashFiction Success Board, with weekly prompts for members to enjoy and stimulate their creative juices.

The Muse also began a seperate division for reviews: THE MUSE BOOK REVIEWS:


In our second year, The MuseItUp Club will have a Board of Directors to seperate several sections within.

If you are interested in becoming a Muse member, all you have to do is email me at:

museitupeditor@yahoo.ca

Have a great day.

Lea

Send your requests for reviews
Just wanted to remind you that The MuseItUp Club now has a seperate review division and website:

The Muse Book Reviews at:

http://themusebookreviews.tripod.com

Check us out and see some of the books we are currently reviewing.

Lea

Less Writing=More Dog Pooper-Scooper
Although not writing related, I did find an angle to this story.

So we bought a Llapa Apso on Monday. Cute little two month old, white body, black ears and tail. VERY ENERGETIC!!! Keep in mind I usually write or webwork about 10 hours a day. I haven't been able to get on for more than an hour a day this week and it's Friday today. This pup has worn me out.

The relation to writing? Distractions can keep you away from writing if you allow them to. So I've made a new schedule: teach pup not to bite my laptop wires and I'll be fine. :)

Lea

Okay, it worked!
I just wanted to offer up a couple of links that I think you might enjoy and find helpful. First is A great site to find a market for your stories

The other one is my own local group website. The main feature of the site is my list of links and I offer that to all of you should you so desire. Just send me an email requesting membership to jimflint1@yahoo.com and I'll send you the Yahoo group link to suscribe.

Shane

**New**The Muse Book Reviews**
Mood:  vegas lucky
The MuseItUp Club has added a new division to its board. The Muse Book Reviews.

Genres to review are:

Children's Books/Picture Books
Young Adult
Chick Lit
Romance
Dark Fiction/Horror
Mystery
Inspirational
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Nonfiction
How-To

If you are interested in having your up-and-coming book or recently released book reviewed by The Muse Reviewers, all you have to do is send me an email with your book's link or write up at:

museitupeditor@yahoo.ca

Lea
http://museitupclub.tripod.com
http://www.apolloslyre.com

July's Issue of The Muse Marquee is HOT!!
Mood:  celebratory
The July issue of the Muse Marquee is now being assembled and, boy, do the Editors have a great issue prepared.

*Need tips on how to make your flash beginnings awesome? Check out Chick's column.

*Want to find out who your Romance readers are? Check out Ann's column.

*Want to give your character some 'attitude'? Then Shane's column will do the trick.

and more.

If you haven't already, link to:

http://themusemarquee.tripod.com

and you will find a link to subscribe. You can have a sneak peek at our debut free issue.

Looking forward to reading your suggestions/comments.

Lea

Thank you to Francine Silverman
Mood:  happy
I want to thank Francine Silverman, author of BOOK MARKETING FROM A-Z and Publisher of BOOK PROMOTION NEWSLETTER for mentioning the Muse Marquee within her June 8th issue.

For all you writers who have never heard or read Francine's newsletter, you don't know what you're missing.

Francine and her subscribers offer links and several promotional and marketing tips in each issue, valuable lessons for all published and nonpublished writers to have on hand and utilize.

Book Promotion Newsletter is an interactive, bi-weekly ezine for authors of all genres and levels of expertise. The annual fee is only $5 for 26 information-packed issues. Please visit
http://www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com

I know you won't be disappointed.

Lea

Helpful links for writing for children
I came across these links and wanted to share them with everyone.

http://www.underdown.org/prek_nf.htm
http://www.underdown.org/mf_writing_picture_books.htm

Writing for children is not as easy as a writer may think. Writing for the older crowd, you have time to expand scenarios and characters. Writing for children, you need to captivate their attention right off with interesting characters they can relate to and situations they can associate with.

Little children are susceptible to what a writer pens to paper so we need to be careful.

Also, writing for children means not only does a writer need to get past the publishing door for acceptance, but their book needs to pass the inspection of the child's parent plus the school librarian to place the book within their school system. Fun, eh? :)

Hope you enjoy the links above.

Lea

The Muse Marquee Debuts
Mood:  celebratory
I am thrilled to announce the newest addition to the MuseItUp Club, The Muse Marquee.

The Muse Marquee features 10 prolific Editors, each writing a column every month to enhance and hone your writing.

Our first issue in June is offered for free to give everyone an opportunity to glimpse what we're all about.

In each issue of the Marquee, we will host exercises, prompts, and throughout the course of the year, several contests to subscribers, as well.

The cost is low, ONLY $10.00 for a year's worth of columns to help you along in your writing.

Hop on board now and get in your writing lessons from the very beginning.

Lea

Welcome to The Muse Members Blog
Mood:  celebratory
Welcome. Hope spring in your area is nice and warm.

The MuseItUp Club has started a blog for its members where their reviews, book releases, media releases will be available for all to catch up on these wonderful writers.

I hope you take the time and email the members on their posts.

Lea