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Margaret Atwood and…zippers.

Margaret Atwood dishes on e-books and so much more, From The Globe and Mail.
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Women in Literature… Where you be at?

Jennifer Egan is dissed by LA Times, who chose to highlight her winning Nat'l book Critics Award by speaking all about how Jonathan Franzen didn't. Stats from VIDA show less women get published than men. surprised?
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Book Sale. Get your books here!

Last night my daughter told me that I could start my own used book store with all the books I have on my shelves.

I laughed, then wondered again, about storage for my darling hardcovers, all those signed and first editions- books that I imagine will be called “antiques” before I die.

 

I know publishing is a changing industry. I accept that. I bought my Kindle, and shopping for tablets, read downloaded material all the time.

 

I even have my own e-book at all the retail outlets.

Simple Intent

* on sale for the next fews days at …

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Motherhood and Writing

All writers have time and space constraints, but what about when you're also THE MOM.
Also posted in house, husband, jobs, kids, writers, writing tips

Signing an e-book

How authors will provide signed copies of their ebooks in the future.
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Publishing trends for 2011

Publishing trends for authors in 2011.
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Workshop, Conference or Retreat? Which is right for you?

I wrote about it all over here: WRITE BY THE WATER

Do you have a favorite to add to the list?…

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So You Want to Write a Novel… HAHAHAH!

Think you can write a novel?

Yes. I have met this person….many times.

and yet……

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That “I Write Like Thing” and my results

I inserted a few paragraphs from the novel my agent is shopping in NY, We’re Not Waving, We’re Drowning. Hello HOTSHOT MARKET SAVVY EDITORS????
Also posted in books, NY, weird, writers

Famous Writer’s Birthdays Today

Straight from Garrison Keillor, a man who my children hate to hear drone in the car- they claim his voice induces car sickness…

From The Writer’s Almanac: January 25th

It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf, (books by this author) born Virginia Stephen in London (1882). She never went to school, but her father chose books for her to read from his own library. She was only allowed to move out of her family home after her father’s death, when she was 22. She moved into a house with her brothers and sister, and instead of writing …

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