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Author: Malena Putnam

  • Get Real About Food: What are we really eating?

    Hi, friends. I’m feeling pretty pumped about the results of my daily log on where I spend my time – our week 1 awareness challenge. While I did find I go off track fairly often, I was able to control how much time I spent online and realizing I don’t allocate enough time for diversions…

  • Get REAL about TIME: waster or winner?

    Happy New Year and welcome to my 2014 series, get REAL. Each week I’ll be blogging about an issue that can greatly contribute to our self-growth and success. What’s holding us back? What can we do to live out our purpose? I’m kicking off the series with getting real about TIME. I’ll embed the video…

  • 2013 Year in Review / Lessons

    I always get sentimental this time of year – not only because we’re packing up the suitcase on a calendar year, but because it’s a reminder how truly fast time flies. They weren’t joking about that. I thought it might slow down the older I get. Nope. If anything, it seems someone has their foot…

  • 5 Fun Facts About My Holiday Romance

    Of course I mean my fictional Manhattan holiday romance in my new ebook novella, STERLING & SLOANE, available starting today at Amazon and Barnes & Noble for just .99. As a novella, it’s a short read – just long enough to drink a couple glasses of wine by a roaring fire. Hot cocoa with whipped cream also…

  • Author Guest Diana Rodriguez Wallach on Creativity

    Readers, I’m delighted to introduce you to an amazing talent today – Diana Rodriguez Wallach –  who I was so fortunate to meet when she submitted a fantastic trilogy of short stories for the Mythology High series at Buzz Books USA. The very definition of creativity is coming up with new twists and she has…

  • We Meet Again, Ken…

    Most writers will tell you they started telling stories when they were kids. While I’ve talked about writing two stories in 6th grade and passing them around to classmates, my best stories were played out in miniature form. In the early ’80s, my puppets, my mouthpieces were Ken and Barbie and gang. I played with the…

  • Guiding Creative Talent…the good, bad and ugly

    Recently on Writer’s Unboxed, my go-to nearly daily writerly diversion, an author posted about a vintage academic book on raising and educating creative children called Guiding Creative Talent by E. Paul Torrance. Since it was nearly out of print, I had to have it. It’s the goofiest cover, but it was 1964 so we’ll forgive.…

  • Bridesmaids and the One Year Anniversary of Something New

    Today I’m kicking off a bridesmaids blog hop with some very cool writers whom I’d be happy to have in my wedding party. We’re doing the hop in celebration of the one year anniversary of Dani Stone’s NEXT LEFT and my SOMETHING NEW, which both feature a bridesmaid theme. Before Thanksgiving, we’re giving away a…

  • True Do or Not to Do – On a Purpose-Driven List

    This week I met with a friend whose life is an open field of possibility. She’s getting a fresh start and we talked about finding her purpose. She talked. I listened deeply. Turns out, she already knew what direction to go, big-picture wise. Like all of us, she was letting uncertainty grip her and that…

  • Gravity: On Meditation, Rebirth and Story

    DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS The image of Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan floating through space without a safety cord was enough of a trigger to keep me from wanting to seeing GRAVITY. However, when my 16- year-old son said he wanted to see it  followed by my 13 year-old daughter *and* my film critic husband, that…