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20250912 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted September 12, 2025, on ACB Media 6   We celebrated one year of episodes, caught up with Mark Carlson who was our first guest author and talked about our writing hacks from using AI, the A Lady and Bookshare for reference materials to name characters and find rhymes, among … Read more

20250822 Author Collective Originally Broadcasted August 22, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Author Collective welcomed Diane Landy and writing for children.   Sponsored By: Friends in Art Email the FIA President     Find out more at https://fia-author-collective.pinecast.co

20250808 Author Collective Originally Broadcasted August 8, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Author collective presented Children’s picture book author.   Sponsored By: Friends in Art Email the FIA President   Find out more at https://fia-author-collective.pinecast.co

20250725 Tips for Starting or Joining a Critique Group Originally Broadcasted July 25, 2025, on ACB Media 5   In this episode we learned about critique partners and groups, the many benefits, and possible drawbacks. How to improve your feedback skills and what to ask for when participating in feedback exchanges was also discussed. To … Read more

20250613 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted June 13, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Becoming more purposeful in your writing is a good habit to establish . Participants talked about how to develop a more consistent writing routine.   Sponsored by: cvb   Find out more at https://fia-author-collective.pinecast.co

20250425 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted April 25, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Spring is for writing and growing. In this episode we opened to a forum of questions about writing, publishing and what it means to foster a supportive writing community.    Sponsored By: Friends in Art Email the FIA President Find out … Read more

20250411 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted April 11, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Master the Tools to Meet Your Writing Goals. Participants joined us tonight Friday April 11 and found out how to craft a well-written essay. Author Mark Carlson returned and discussed the craft of essay writing.   Sponsored By: Friends in Art … Read more

20250328 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted March 28, 2025, on ACB Media 6   Master the Tools to Meet Your Writing Goals. Participants joined us tonight Friday March 28 and found out how to harness technology during presentations, poetry, and prose readings and how to cope with those public speaking jitters by learning about audio … Read more

20250314 FIA Author Collective Originally Broadcasted March 14, 2025, on ACB Media 6   In this episode, author, editor and writing coach Julie Artz shared the meaning of her Origin story and how discovering and exploring it validated her efforts in memoir writing. Julie is the Founder of Author accelerator and is a regular contributor … Read more

20250228 FIA Author Collective – Family History Memoir Writing Originally Broadcasted February 28, 2025, on ACB Media 6   In this episode, Margaret shares the definition of a family history memoir and how it digs more deeply into the lives of those people on the family tree.  Margaret answers the question, why do we need … Read more