Ariel Gore's Blog

• A Quick Brush of Wings

  March 11, 2010

  • If I wanted to be a writer, I realized, I would have to go where the writers were. I had to find these people. These writers. I had to seek them out and be in their presence and inhale the air they exhaled. I had to learn from them. And here was my chance. I saw the ad in the local alternative weekly: An evening with Anne Lamott and Amy Tan. These were maybe the two most powerful ...
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• Amazon Fail: Just when I was getting happy....

  January 31, 2010

  • So, I finally get a serious nod in The New York Times Book Review and Amazon & my publisher are in some hot dispute!***Imagine my puzzlement when someone emailed me Friday evening complaining that my book wasn't available on Amazon.com.I checked it out myself: Indeed, it was listed, but no buy button. You could purchase it from a third party, but you couldn't even pre-oder it from Amazon. It ...
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• It's time to register for the Spring writing class!

  January 5, 2010

  • This is best writing class I have ever taken! Almost painlessly you got us to write, write, write. And for me got at some new great material. --Kitty Torres Eight-week class runs February 20th – April 20thONLINE CLASS LIT STAR TRAININGTaught by Ariel GoreThis class is the creative jolt we all need -- for writers wanting to work on either memoir or fiction -- we'll make ...
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