“Happiness…come(s)…as a result of learning” Aristotle Paradoxically, the dawn of the information age with all of its technological advances has contributed to the new dark age in which we live. It’s easy to become
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Fiction Books about Happiness: Technology Blues
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Finding Happiness | 0 commentsTechnology and its impact on people isn’t a theme of my first novel, Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, as the protagonist, Silvia is a Luddite who prefers “vinyl records to CD’s, print books to e-books, and paintbrushes
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Fiction Books about Happiness: The Drive to be Happy
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Finding Happiness | 0 commentsProtagonists in both of my novels are driven by their desires to find happiness. In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, Silvia is motivated to unite her family by her desire for peace. She wants to make peace within her family and to save
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Fiction Books about Happiness
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Finding Happiness | 0 commentsFinding happiness is a theme that runs throughout my novels and short stories. When characters search for happiness, they make important realizations about life and how to live it. In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, Silvia learns
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Indie Author Marketing: Exposure Over Sales
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Indie Author Series | 0 commentsAs indie authors, it’s much too easy to get caught up in our sales rankings, especially on a site such as Amazon in which an author can have a ranking in multiple categories. However, it’s vital for us to stay cognizant of the more
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