A few years ago children’s book editor Sylvie Frank reached into a slush pile and pulled out John Sullivan’s picture book story Kitten and the Night Watchman. That Frank even read this manuscript is a little amazing. The slush pile represents unsolicited manuscripts and ranks as a low editorial priority. In the book publishing industry,…
Have You Called Sheep Lately? You can call out to sheep, and most likely they will give you half-hearted attention (like the ones above did to me). That’s because sheep know their master’s voice and only answer to his or her call. For the second week of Advent our hands touch the woolly head of…
Businesswoman and writer Danise DiStasi is my guest blogger this week on the topic of “being.” Danise has learned so much from faithful dog Louie that she has written a book on Beagle wisdom: Louie’s Leadership Lessons (found on Amazon). Danise also blogs about Louie at: http://03a8685.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2016/06/07/how-to-just-be/ Rest, Louie, Rest By Danise DiStasi I was sitting outside working…