Cain't Do Nothing with Love Archives

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 15

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 27, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. Leave a Comment

This is CHAPTER 15 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in now or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in now, I can’t promise you it won’t be...

Books and Beyond

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 19, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. Leave a Comment

I loved being at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library this morning for the library’s Books and Beyond Book Club. I was pleased they had me, and they were warm and gracious. I had a prepared a talk, but they had questions right out of the gate. We wound up talking for an hour and a half. It was wide-ranging. The ostensible topic was my...

Take a Look at Scribl

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on October 15, 2017. Posted in LOVE, Writing. Leave a Comment

Y’all know me. I’m always experimenting. I don’t know if I’m easily bored or what. But one of the many plates I’ve currently got spinning in the air involves crowd pricing my short stories. I’m talking about CAIN’T DO NOTHING WITH LOVE, the short story collection that was on Podiobooks, which was itself...

Around the World in Love

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 15, 2017. Posted in General, LAWYER, LOVE, Writing. Leave a Comment

What do London and San Francisco have in common? They are the top two cities downloading my short stores. Where in Canada—the third highest download site—are listeners downloading the stories? Everywhere but Nova Scotia—Nova Scotia don’t like Cain’t Do Nothing with Love. After France, what’s the next most popular country downloading the stories? Iran Where...

Fewer Words, More Links

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 13, 2015. Posted in Writing. 9 Comments

Other places where I hang out on the web. Come visit! https://twitter.com/ellenprewitt https://www.facebook.com/MyVerySouthernVoice https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2539007.Ellen_Morris_Prewitt https://www.instagram.com/vemphaha/ http://www.amazon.com/Making-Crosses-Creative-Connection-Active/dp...

Old Stories Found

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 3, 2014. Posted in General. 5 Comments

After a long hiatus, I submitted a couple of short stories to literary magazines today. I’ve been working on the new website, mulling over what stories I wanted to include. The website will have a “Photo Bio” featuring a sentence about my life that reflects a dominant themes in my work and a representative photo. Click on the...

Where I am Now

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 28, 2014. Posted in General. 8 Comments

For those of y’all following my novel(s) saga, I thought you might like an update. Also, I need your support—just getting it out here helps me feel I’m not all alone on this journey! TRAIN TRIP: LUCINDA MAE’S QUEST FOR LOVE, HONOR AND THE CHICKENS, is being read and considered by four agents. Many queries are still outstanding, and I have...

1000 Listeners

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 4, 2014. Posted in General. 1 Comment

Many years ago, I read excerpts from Write Your Heart Out on the local NPR affiliate. In response, the book’s author, my friend and mentor Rebecca McClanahan, said, “Thank you for sharing my words.” Ever since, I’ve had a very specific goal with my writing: getting my words shared. Random photo of me about to go out on...

Welcoming New Listeners

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 2, 2014. Posted in General. Leave a Comment

If you’ve found us here through Podiobooks, welcome! The release on Podiobooks is the latest step in a process that began last December. You can read the background on how I came to record my short story collection, Cain’t Do Nothing with Love, by scrolling over the ABOUT tab above and clicking AUTHOR Q&A. You can read more about...

Cheers to the Buzzing Mosquito

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 1, 2014. Posted in General. 7 Comments

How do you choose to get your work out there? This question—ebook or print?—is raging on LinkedIn. Sprinkled in but treated as an annoying buzzing mosquito of a distraction—quit bringing this up!— are a handful of posts about audio. I am the buzzing mosquito. Here, at Cain’t Do Nothing with Love, we are living in an audio world. “Written...

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