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Message from the Editor
Trying to stay cool these days by capitalizing on the lake behind the house. It's mighty hot in central SC. At the same time, I'm trying to plan for the next Edisto book coming out the end of September, write the Edisto book after that, and edit the audio of Palmetto Poison. Things are popping under the Clark roof, but that's nothing to complain about. Hope your writing is moving long. If it's not, chin up. It's the day-to-day diligence that makes it all come together.
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EDITOR'S THOUGHTS
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MASTERMIND GROUPS
Last week I received a wonderful outpouring of understanding from my readers after reading Master Being Yourself. Thanks so very much. I do believe my new group of writers, a small group of like minds, is better for me.
This same week, I was invited to a Mastermind Group. Sort of Karma-ish, I think. Here I am closing a painful door, yet another swings open. I'd never heard of a Mastermind Group before, so I looked it up.
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Mastermind groups have been around since the beginning of time, apparently. Benjamin Franklin belonged to a Junto, his title for such a group. Napoleon Hill in his timeless classic, "Think And Grow Rich" defines a Mastermind Group as, "The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony. No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind [the master mind]."
Like I stated last week, we have to be happy in our own skins. However, there's nothing wrong with seeking feedback from others, because we don't have all the answers. We don't have to accept that feedback as gospel, but we must learn to appreciate there are options to the limited answers we know. The key is being open-minded about those answers, and mature enough to pick and choose what we want out of the mix and not take anything personal.
In other words, remember the goal is still to be happy.
That's why you need a critique group, or beta group, or editorial consultant. That's why your publisher and agent need to be on your side. Think of such feedback like the hardware store. You have a project (you), and to determine how to build it to the best of your ability, you go into the hardware store and study all the optional tools. You research, ask questions of the experts working in the store, then make your selection, go home, and build your project.
Always remember: Advice is optional. The ultimate choices of molding yourself are your own. Regardless how you build, be happy with the result.
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-Hope Clark
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Upcoming Book Signings and Classes!
July 31-Aug 1 - Mississippi Writers Conference, Oxford, MS
August 26 - SC Library Association, keynote, Irmo Branch Library, 3:30PM
Oct 7 - Bouchercon, Raleigh, NC, James Scott Bell class (as attendee), 1-5 PM
Oct 9 - Lexington, SC Book Club - ON EDISTO BEACH!
Oct 10 - Release of Edisto Jinx, Edisto Beach, SC, Edisto Bookstore, 4-6 PM
Oct 17 - Greenwood, SC - Fiction Class AM / Book Club PM (details TBA)
Oct 29-Nov 1 - Killer Nashville Con, Nashville, TN
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WORDS OF SUCCESS
This is your life. You are responsible for it.
You will not live forever. Don't wait.
~ Natalie Goldberg
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MURDER ON EDISTO
A big city detective
A Lowcountry crime
When her husband is murdered by the Russian mob, Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan suffers a mental break and relinquishes her badge to return home to South Carolina. She has no idea how to proceed with her life, but her son deserves to move on with his, so she relocates them to the family vacation home.
But the day they arrive on Edisto Beach, Callie finds her childhood mentor and elderly neighbor murdered. Her fragile sanity is threatened when the murderer taunts her, and the home that was to be her sanctuary is repeatedly violated. Callie loses her fight to walk away from law enforcement as she becomes the only person able to pursue the culprit who's turned the coastal paradise into a paranoid patch of sand where nobody's safe. But what will it cost her?
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C. Hope Clark
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