Stories from the Writing Journey
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What Never Again Means to Me…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary
by Joanie Schirm on April 25, 2013 PermalinkNeverAgain_OA0313_op Orange Appeal Mag March 2013 On April 28, 2013, my husband, Roger Neiswender, and I, along with our “heritage network” friend Carole Kraus will sit together in an evening of tribute to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for 20 years of great service to this country and to the world. Carole and I
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CP April 2013 Interviewee is Local Orlando Author Joanie Schirm of Adventurers Against Their Will
by Joanie Schirm on April 18, 2013 PermalinkOrlando Author Joanie Schirm of Adventurers Against Their Will is feature interviewee When my family moved some twenty years ago to the charming Orlando downtown neighborhood nicknamed “College Park”, for the first time in my adult life, I felt really at home. Since I’d left home at 17 for college, I’d always lived in what
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Adventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean?
by Joanie Schirm on April 14, 2013 PermalinkAdventurers Against Their Will Book Launch finally happened! I then left the country… Now that I’ve returned, I wonder: What do Amazon book rankings really mean? Most experts would advise any author: “When you launch your book, be accessible!” After all, if you place your ‘baby’ on various on-line retail outlets like Amazon, Barnes &
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Friends make the world go round…
by Joanie Schirm on March 13, 2013 PermalinkDerrick Salisbury on Facebook Derrick Salisbury shared a link Video of Adventurers Against Their…: “My mentor and former boss at the Orlando Area Sports Commission has written a just released book that documents her father’s fleeing World War II Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Asia and eventually to the States. It’s a fascinating story that Joanie put
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
by Joanie Schirm on March 1, 2013 PermalinkIt’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
by Joanie Schirm on March 1, 2013 PermalinkIt’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote
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March 1, 2013 Today’s world of popping out a book
by Joanie Schirm on March 1, 2013 PermalinkIt’s amazing to think that my writing journey has been going on nearly nine hours every single day for five years. I started with the epic World War II story of my Czech father (My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime),naively thinking I’d finish that book in about two years. Then, as I wrote
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So you want to be an author?
by Joanie Schirm on February 19, 2013 PermalinkSo you want to be an author? Trust me; if you take this new job as a writer seriously, you are in for an experience-like-none-other. After thirty-five years in the business of engineering, seventeen as a business owner, involved in community activism up to my eye balls, in 2008 I retired to write a book