June 8, 2012
Dirty Girl


She was naked!
Her unwrapped skin was a dirty story-teller
Of those parasites.
Now she is pale, all her mysteries have been scythed with the nails,
All have been disclosed to thirsty eyes.

Satirically thousands of fingers point back to her,
With no worry she watches post-mortem of her character;
All splutter on the face of the Dirty Girl,
At the dark contour they creep into those dens in masks
To lick the saliva from her face
To suck the last drop of her juice, insane!!
Maskers look at her slightly off at a tangent in the sun,
Implying—sophisticated feet don’t tread on the worms of dust!
Who cares!!!
Crosses inlay at her juxtaposed existence.

Next day she again stands at the door-
Rosy tint on her cheeks, rich red on her juicy lips
Hides the stories of past night,
And generates a new…
Perhaps she counts and measures each hour at the cost of each selling,
Mistakenly gets lost in it,
One day she gets lost from existence leaving no trace,
Leaving no memory…

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April 16, 2012
The End of the World & Professional Reporting

Determination is a wonderful quality except when found in one’s opposition. 

This morning a great joke was posted to me at Facebook.   It was a fake CNN article about the end of the world, probably thanks to April Fool’s Day. 

The important thing was that the end of the world did not stop the journalists from getting their articles in by the deadline and CNN was able to get the news out on time.  It is true that the end of everything did effect them.  The article was only 50 words rather than the usual full length articles. 

I hope to share my own sense of humor and determination with you all.  Please search around for books, articles and reviews here and elsewhere.

Thanks for reading!

Miriam Pia

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April 5, 2012
Friends, Oh Really?

Unless you have been living in a remote cave somewhere on your own, divorced from the world of the internet and therefore unaware of the phenomena of online friends, the whole concept probably baffles you as much as it does me.

Many of the social media sites, particularly Facebook, actively encourage you to collect friends like most kids collect photographs of their favourite film stars or sports heroes. What’s the point? We are all spread across the planet for a start. Secondly, unless any of our online ‘friends’ are actual genuine ones, people we know personally and have spent time with, the probability of actually meeting is remote in the extreme.

At the time of writing this I have over two hundred according to FB. Out of that number I ‘chat’ to a handful, mostly my personal friends spread across the globe, my editor and writers like myself. Will I sit down together with the rest of the two hundred online friends over a meal or a beer? Highly unlikely! So why do we do it? What actual benefit do we gain from it?

From my personal point of view as a writer, being totally mercenary about it, maybe one or two of those folk will decide to buy a book of mine. When I get a new ‘friend request’ from someone I have never met in my entire life, nor are ever likely to, I accept. But then that’s me – mister nice guy.

Some merely hope that when I accept their online friendship that I will participate with them for hours on end playing the stupid online games FB offers – not! Others, having made themselves known to me, never bother to use the ‘chat’ option so that we can get to know each other a little more, as far as it’s possible to do so online. Mind you, neither do I.

So I repeat myself once more, what’s the point of it all? More to the point, what does Face Book get out of this concept of ‘friends’ we all make use of I ask myself?

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July 3, 2011
Review: Your Blog, Your Business

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores, a stint as a New York publicist, and as a retail consultant and journalist has laid the ground work for her award-winning, How To Do It Frugally Series; as well as this gem of a study guide, Your Blog, Your Business.

No matter whether you are an independent entrepreneur working out of a store or writer managing your own website, social networking and blogging can leave your competitors in the dust. We are no longer depending on money exchanging hand-by-hand; and even big business is now participating in networking, which is one of the most effective means of communicating with large numbers of eager customers.

Besides tips on retailing and getting and keeping customers, Carolyn hits on spicy bits about Google’s free blog, Blogger. Like people, Blogger has as many voices as there are brands of commodities needing to be sold and bought. But, if you’re new to blogging and worried about writer’s block, don’t be. Blogging is just like journaling. Journaling is like talking without being interrupted. If you can journal, you can blog. If you blog, you are a writer. You don’t have to carry the conversation all by yourself. Try some of the ideas below:

  • Use guest bloggers with similar focus
  • Get partners for your blog, try out permission gadgets on Blogger to let others post at their convenience
  • Recycle old articles, bits and pieces, into new docs
  • Use the carnival concept – of providing live links for your readers to visit (Only get the best with the same focus as yours!)
  • Outsource your blogging – trade off with other bloggers
  • Suggest readers subscribe, teasing them with whitepapers and regular gratuities


It helps businesses large or small, online or off, to set up a blog, integrate it with their other social networks like your own website, Twitter and/or Facebook. I think her most important lesson is to keep your focus on what you can do for others. Offer incentives for subscribing like white papers or eBooks, present or old.

Recycle the past into the present and give your readers a taste of what it is your selling. Even though it is human nature to want free stuff, it is important to remember, free is the gift that keeps giving back. I highly recommend this book for store retailers, beginning or experienced bloggers and anyone interested in becoming their own boss.

Five Stars for Amazon.com
By Joyce White - Sculpting the Heart Book Reviews
www.wingedforhealing.com

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June 30, 2011
Mr.J Social Networking Rant

Now I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but from the Facebook user that updates their status to “I’m typing on Facebook”, to the Twitter user that follows his stalkers so they can cut down on looking into the mirror, to the YouTube user that scheduled a colonoscopy because they needed new footage to upload, privacy has become harder to find than the chub-baby of Jimmie Hoffa, Carmen San-Diego & Waldo while playing hide-n-seek and wearing camouflage stitched from four leaf clovers.

Here’s how you know if you rely on technology too much: If you make Zuckerberg with an unlimited gift certificate to Best Buy look like an 18th century Amish elder during a power outage.

Truth be told folks, this pixilated portal to a sort of Social-networking-Stargate has been entered by Kurt Russell kids quicker than the dialogue of the Gilmore Girls rehearsing on Red bull & meth.

And it’s elicited a Macintosh-molecular reconfiguration of digital-discourse after caroming through the networking-nebulous, intergalactic-internet, Wi-Fi-wormhole, vernacular-vortex, transporting talking into typing and typing into texting that landed somewhere in a parallel universe orbiting computer-coded-cyber space in this Google-Galaxy generational-gap so exuberantly extreme that nowadays fetuses are posing for sonograms because their online profile needs a new default picture.

BOOK COVERBottom line, there’s no escaping this computer cage even if you’re system freezes because it all comes full circle to your frozen screen as you try to escape the thought of freezing by bird watching then you’ll see a robin thinking of Batman and Robin then reminding you of their diabolical nemesis, Mr. Freeze, freeze, see the word freeze again, there’s no escaping unless someone frees you, frees, wait frees sounds like the word freeze, damn it, see, vicious cycle.

Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be (socially) wrong.

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May 31, 2011
A Plea to Self Published Writers

Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won’t be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten.

What do I mean by this?

It’s simple, so simple in fact that I’m surprised so many of you seem to totally ignore it!

No discerning member of the reading population of this world likes to see a book chock full of glaring errors like bad spelling, punctuation errors or poor setup.

Take setup as an example of the lack of professionalism within self publishing today.

By cramming the typeface together into a solid block on the page, minus breaks between paragraphs, chapter breaks, chapter numbers and subheadings, plus page breaks when shifting the direction of the storyline, the discerning reader will instantly become annoyed and simply abandon the product of all those long weeks and months you have spent writing the work.

You might have got away with it with Neanderthals, but they died out.

For goodness sake dot those I’s and cross those T’s!

I wish you would all take your sweet time when setting up your latest novel, short story or poem for publication before foisting what amounts to a shoddily prepared product onto the market. If you don’t have access to an editor, at the very least do yourselves a favour and employ someone who knows what the end product should look like for heaven’s sake!

While I know that the whole area of self publishing is the route many will take given the haughty attitude of most establishment publishers towards first time writers, that doesn’t mean you are excluded from taking care and responsibility when presenting the reading public with your product.

By offering your work in a shoddy form you do the world of books, and above all yourselves, no favours. Don’t be in such a steaming hurry to get your work out there. It’s far better to take a little time in perfecting the way it looks first.

Believe me, there is nothing quite so annoying as being confronted by a low quality product.

Would you stand for it when buying a new car, television, house or any other consumer product? Of course you wouldn’t. So why should you expect the book buyer to put up with it either?

For your own sake take your time, take care, and above all, take pride in the product of all your hard work.

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