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Nov.09.2012
A writing day begins after a two week absence for illness.
Honestly, I thought The Writer had left me for another. I've been working and coping with troubling cold but I haven't heard a sneeze out of him. I kept trying to entice him but he stayed away. Yes, he did have some...
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Nov.04.2012
Beautiful? Other people had called Delphine beautiful for as long as she could remember. Yes, she was slim and black-haired, with the high cheekbones, large eyes, and finely chiseled profile beloved by photographers, but she’d learned as a child to disregard, even scorn, these features...
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Oct.29.2012
Long before I was a writer, I was a reader. I think I was practically born reading. Even before I understood what those marks were on the pages of my picture books, I made up stories that I pretended to read. You could also argue that was writing, so I suppose I was born doing that as well. But it...
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Oct.26.2012
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recently, I was trying to organize my little boy’s books, which were so tightly crammed onto the shelves that grabbing one became a dangerous game of dominoes. After pulling each one out, I sat surrounded by the...
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Oct.19.2012
Ann Patchett noted about JK Rowling:
"You have done more for reading than anyone alive. You've raised up a generation of readers around the world and made it safe for the rest of us to write and to sell books."
To which I add a great "A-MEN"
Photograph: Ben...
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Oct.17.2012
A couple of weeks ago I started reading a book called Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox. I finished it this morning. I was pulled toward this book because of my future volunteer work as a reading tutor for young struggling readers. I would...
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Oct.17.2012
Writers, you think landing an agent or a pub contract is hard? We're learning a bit of why that's so in the article linked below. The actual nature of books is changing, and we book buyers and readers are changing our habits, too.
How will this end? Everyone has an opinion these days, but no one...
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Oct.16.2012
Stick out your tongue and you will get some idea of what has been happening in the book business. Ten thousand taste buds combined with various chemical reactions elsewhere in the body send taste signals to your brain.
With the tsunami of e-books where traditional and self-published writers are...
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Oct.15.2012
I have always been an avid reader, voraciously devouring every piece of literature I could get my hands on, from "The Great Gatsby" to "War and Peace" and everything in between. I love classics and contemporary, mysteries, biographies, whimisical tales, and heart breaking autobiographies. I...
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Oct.10.2012
Host Youngjoo Ahn and Caie Kelley interview Ellen Hopkins, the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of eight young adult novels, including Crank, Glass, Fallout, and Perfect, as well as the adult novel Triangles. Hopkins’ second adult novel Collateral will be published in November...
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