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May.04.2011
Previously published in The Writer Magazine
Like you, I started out as a story 'listener'. Both my parents were avid storytellers, and I needed only to hear the words, "I remember the time when..." to feel that rare and exquisite pleasure in the anticipation of a new story. The dark,...
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Apr.16.2011
The ocean of the Internet can make you feel very tiny at times
After writing for over twenty years, I had thought I knew just about everything I needed to. Of course, I'm always looking for ways to improve my skills, and I treat every new project as a learning opportunity. But I hadn't...
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Mar.14.2011
The Four Ms. Bradwells is going into a second printing eight days before it even comes out. I would explain how this happens if I knew, but I don't. I just know it's very good news. It comes on the heels of a lovely piece yesterday which calls it "a thriller of a whodunit, a tender love story...
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Mar.12.2011
OK OK I did not think I would be adding my two cents (Cdn - worth more than USA) to the Charlie Sheen goat-and-pony show. I've never seen his sit-com (now cancelled - of has he just been fired?) and do not know much more about him than the ten minutes of a melt-down TV interview I saw. But my ears...
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Mar.11.2011
I just got the table of contents list for one of my publishing credits this year: Wilde Stories 2011, edited by Steve Berman from Lethe Press. Without further ado:
"Love Will Tear us Apart" by Alaya Dawn Johnson
"Map of Seventeen" by Chris Barzak
"How to Make Friends in...
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Feb.24.2011
Alert: Stay turned to this channel for a special broadcast, Monday, 28 Feb. Irina Avtsin will tell us all about the power of the word, “No!”. ~~~~~~~~~
{This post is almost a rant and purposefully written in a voice I rarely use…}
A madhouse is where insane persons are confined or a place...
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Feb.15.2011
New West magazine is accepting fiction submissions for the first time. You can find out more details here:
www.newwest.net
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Feb.01.2011
I’m going to have my first face-to-face meeting with my editor in eight days.
I just realized as I wrote that sentence that the combination of “face-to-face” and “editor” might have given a few readers a chill.
A face-to-face is serious, right?
Does serious have to mean bad?
The editor, that...
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Jan.28.2011
The second proof of our book arrived in the post and I've given the project the go ahead. It received 26000 views in the 8 months it existed as a forum post on authonomy. (Read all about it here: http://blog.authonomy.com/2011/01/rambling-poets-at-cafe-cyber.html )
So after a year of hard work by 7...
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Jan.26.2011
My agent submitted the first half of my second book to my editor today. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears -- his and mine -- to make it to this point.
Some writers will tell you that writing the second book is harder than the first. After all, you had as much time as you wanted and needed to...
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