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The Kirkus Review is in for my book. The consensus is…
While I was out wandering the mountains of Georgia, someone was typing up and submitting their review of Not Waving, Drowning for the inimitable Kirkus Review. I am pleased to report, I do NOT suck. I did not star, but neither did I crash and burn. For those of you that have purchased and read Not Waving, Drowning. Thank you, and I hope you agree with all the most wonderful parts of this review, and that you stuck through the complicated parts… because I write for a smart, yet complicated reader, and let’s face it, life is damn messy.
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Paint, write, cook, garden. It all means you are a creative soul.
Buy a real hold-in-your-hand-smell-the-paper copy of Not Waving, Drowning today.
Cool blog about writing…because what’s better than that?
Good Reads. My new favorite place to meet people.
Like this gal, Jackie. Check out her blog, and her comeback to the Amazon vs. Traditional Publishers dispute.
New World, Old World… or the best of both?…
Should you join the digital revolution? This guy’s got the answers.
Here it is. One stop shopping for answers to the quaetions you’ve been asking yourself.
*insert hauntingly mystical soundtrack here*
Links to posts by David Gaughran, found on his blog: Let’s Get Digital.…
the complete list of linda’s electronic shorts
Apologies to the folks who had difficulty finding the list.
all links are here…. download and be reading within seconds.
CLICK THE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR A LINK TO AMAZON/KINDLE
click the lower case words for a link to all e-readers, including phones, computers and high tech stuff yet to reach the USA
based on a true crime in 1970′s Philadelphia
2. ADULT THEMED FAIRY TALES IN SNIPPETS
ever wonder what someone is thinking?
3. LIKE YOUR …
Writing Habits of Famous Writers and Poets
Toni Morrison
INTERVIEWER
You have said that you begin to write before dawn. Did this habit begin for practical reasons, or was the early morning an especially fruitful time for you?
MORRISON
Writing before dawn began as a necessity–I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, Mama–and that was always around five in the morning. Many years later, after I stopped working at Random House, I just stayed at home for a couple of years. I discovered things about myself I had never thought about before. At first
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Habits of Famous Writers
Stephen King
“There are certain things I do if I sit down to write,” he said. “I have a glass of water or a cup of tea. There’s a certain time I sit down, from 8:00 to 8:30, somewhere within that half hour every morning,” he explained. “I have my vitamin pill and my music, sit in the same seat, and the papers are all arranged in the same places. The cumulative purpose of doing these things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind, you’re going to be dreaming soon.
“It’s not
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