💙📚Wishing you all a Happy 2026. tonibellon.com

💙📚Excellent advice. Authors are subject to a lot of impersonation scams: fake agents, fake publishers, fake publicists. “Trust but verify “ Ronald Reagan

💙📚The Atlanta Writers Club has two upcoming conferences: Our Self Publishing Conference is March 28 www.atlantaselfpublishingconference.com Traditional Publishing Conference is May 1-2. I’ll be working the front desk so stop by! #writing #selfpublishing #traditionalpublishing #author

💙📚 Are you a #writer? Looking to #publish traditionally? #Selfpublishing? The internet and especially Facebook is full of #scammers. Bookmark this site for information and #fraudprevention www.sfwa.org/other-resour... JJ: spouse of author Tonibellon.com

Peace be with you

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly." —Andy Rooney Be well. Be kind. Be Christmas. JJ

Peace to you too

Boost your business and support independent authors. #indiepublishing #selfpublishing #amwriting

💙📚 “One speaker at an Atlanta Writers Conference said not to discount the #smallpublishers. He was right! I began ignoring the mainstream agents and looked at the smaller presses instead.” ToniBellon.com My True Story and What Inspired Me to Write L.E.A.P. nacoa.org.uk/learning-to-...

💙📚 Real literary agents do NOT reach out to authors FIRST via email or cold calls...." They are constantly inundated with book proposals from authors. Be aware and be careful. writersweekly.com/angela-desk/... JJ: Spouse of an author, tonibellon.com.

💙📚. “AWC serves all who are interested in writing, from well-published authors to those aspiring to write for the first time. Our members include writers of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, essays, blogs, graphic novels, poetry, screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, journalism, and freelance work.”

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💙📚 “If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be an author, The Man Who Invented Christmas gets it right. The characters take on a life of their own and often interrupt your sleep to let you know that the story is going in the wrong direction.” preview.mailerlite.io/preview/9616... tonibellon.com

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💙📚 Read my books and you will find a kernel of my truth in each of them. You will also find lies and humor. I’m not going to tell you what is true and what is not. Just know, there is a brick wall nearby with imprints of my head banging. Tonibellon.com #teacher #librarian #schoolcounselor #YAbook

💙📚”I feel really lucky. Being a member of the Atlanta Writers Club allowed me to meet Geoff Habiger from #ArtemesiaPublishing. Geoff deserves a huge amount of credit. He continues to answer all my questions (no matter how dumb) and calms me down.” Toni Bellon. Check out Tonibellon.com

💙📚Excellent advice. Authors are subject to a lot of impersonation scams: fake agents, fake publishers, fake publicists. “Trust but verify “ Ronald Reagan

💙📚. Victoria Strauss is there to protect authors from scammers. Follow her! And check out Writer Beware, her blog #authors #publishingscams #Atlantawritersclub

💙📚 Our 34th Atlanta Writers Conference is open for registrations and features 28 agents and publishers, including 20 in-person guests for manuscript critiques, query letter critiques, and query letter pitches and new "lightning pitches" atlantawritersconference.com/the-conferen...

💙📚Romance Writers Beware: Scams are Targeting You This is an excellent resource by Jenna Harte for all #authors too. It is full of advice. Well worth the time! writewithharte.com/romance-writ... JJ: Spouse of author tonibellon.com. #Indieauthors #romanceauthors #authorscams #books

💙📚I’ve read a lot of stories about alcoholics and many seem to have happy endings where the afflicted person agrees to go to rehab. I wanted to tell a story where the mother doesn’t get help. Tonibellon.com My Story nacoa.org.uk/learning-to-... Free Linns Emerging Adult Plan(LEAP) a.co/d/64sD4Ti

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💙📚 Real literary agents do NOT reach out to authors FIRST via email or cold calls...." They are constantly inundated with book proposals from authors. Be aware and be careful. writersweekly.com/angela-desk/... JJ: Spouse of an author, tonibellon.com. Thanks for clarifying J.S.Living

💙📚 Real literary agents do NOT reach out to authors via email or cold calls. They are constantly inundated with book proposals from authors. Be aware and be careful. writersweekly.com/angela-desk/... JJ: Spouse of an author, tonibellon.com.

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L.E.A.P. is an honest view into the life of a #teen living with an #alcoholic parent and the systemic dysfunction that happens in a family that tries to pretend everything is normal. Kim Ottesen, Forsyth County Public Library My story nacoa.org.uk/learning-to-... Check out tonibellon.com!

💙📚Be careful this holiday season

Not the time to help Putin #Ukraine #Votevets #OccupyDemocrats

This Christmas buy local and support a local business: An author! You can also help promote them too at no cost Check out tonibellon.com and sign up for her newsletter! Even better, buy a book! #TheRetiredSchoolLibrarian #Educators #Librarians #Booksellers #bookstores

💙📚 “Funny and tragic, poignant and powerful, Bellon draws on personal experience to weave the tale of a mother-daughter relationship strained to the point of breaking by mom’s alcoholism. But search beneath those tumultuous waves… Chris Negron, acclaimed author of Underdog City,

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💙📚Avoid getting scammed by predators in the self publishing world. Hear from trusted experts at the AWC Self Publishing Conference

💙📚 I embarked on a career in elementary and middle-level education to help children navigate the uneven power dynamics that exist in homes everywhere. After all the years I spent in denial, I needed to tell my truth. My Story nacoa.org.uk/learning-to-... Tonibellon.com and get the newsletter

💙📚A famous author emails or calls you and offers you advice! Right! Authors Beware It's all fake, of course: an impersonation scheme that's yet another example of the AI-driven scams from Nigeria writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i... JJ: Spouse of author tonibellon.com

💙📚”I feel really lucky. Being a member of the #AtlantaWritersClub allowed me to meet Geoff Habiger from Artemesia Publishing. Geoff deserves a huge amount of credit. He continues to answer all my questions (no matter how dumb) and calms me down.” voyageatl.com/interview/ri... tonibellon.com

💙📚This Christmas buy local and support a local business: An author! If you are an author, please share a link to your book! I’ll start. Free sample of my wife’s YA book for teens and parents too a.co/d/64sD4Ti

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💙📚 A Common Author Scam against Self Published Authors When an out of the blue editor emails and says they saw your book and an established publisher is interested if an agent represents them beware! Next comes a reading fee from the suggested agent! www.clubedfreelancers.com/avoiding-a-c...

💙📚 “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” Norman Vincent Peale Check out the many online writing critique groups provided by the Atlanta Writers Club JJ: Spouse of author, tonibellon.com. atlantawritersclub.org/writing-crit...

We will hear Donald Trump and Republicans co-opting #VeteransDay. Remember who cut SNAP, cut Medicaid for Veterans, used the military as props in Los Angeles and for Trump’s birthday parade, and illegally orders them to kill alleged drug dealers at sea. Let’s remember our Oath. Trump doesn’t.

💙📚 “One speaker at an Atlanta Writers Conference said not to discount the #smallpublishers. He was right! I began ignoring the mainstream agents and looked at the smaller presses instead.” See her website and get the newsletter ToniBellon.com My story nacoa.org.uk/learning-to-...

If History is any guide to redistricting (1894) “That year, it was #Democrats who lost a massive number of seats after taking #redistricting too far,” Politico reported. “Still, their devastating losses contain some lessons for #Republicans today.” www.rawstory.com/republican-r...

💙📚FRAUD ALERT “Unasked-for solicitations or proposals should never be taken at face value. Always investigate; always research. It's very much not great that writers have to be so cautious about everything. But caution is what will keep you safe.” writerbeware.blog/2025/08/01/r...

“Life as a young #adolescent is fraught with a daily gauntlet of socioemotional events while searching for genuine identities that fit! In L. E. A. P., Bellon captures the emotions that run on a loop through 14-year-old Linn’s mind. “ Dr Dave Brown, EdD Visit her website Tonibellon.com

💙📚My wife, Dr. Toni Bellon, EdD, became a teacher to help students who had an alcoholic parent like herself. She continues in retirement by sharing her story. tonibellon.com. Check it out