What's Best for Jane | What's Best for Jane

Jun.13.2011 Bookstore Appearances Local author Bett Norris will read from her new novel, What’s Best for Jane, at the newly opened independent bookstore called Bookstore1Sarasota, located at 1359 Main St in Sarasota, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 6 pm. The author will be available to sign your books and to...	Jun.13.2011 Bookstore Events Bookstore reading/Signing Local author Bett Norris will read from her new novel, What’s Best for Jane, at the newly opened independent bookstore called Bookstore1Sarasota, located at 1359 Main St in Sarasota, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 6 pm. The author will be available to sign...
Jul.04.2009 Two Things at Once I'm at an odd place, editing the latest draft of What's Best for Jane, doing research for my next book, as yet untitled. Going back and forth between the two tasks, it seems that one is infusing the other. How did that happen? At first, it would seem logical that this cross pollination would occur...	Apr.03.2009 More about the New Orleans conference I thought I'd share a little more about the Saints and Sinners conference. This has become an annual event for me. When I first attended, I was an unpublished, unknown writer, there at the insistence of a friend of mine. By the next year, I had a contract for my first novel and was there to meet...
Mar.20.2009 So. . . A few days later, I've edited the chapter in question in the last entry, so the delimma about whether to go forward or rewrite in process was answered, in part. I am still mulling over this edit, still pondering whether I want to do more with it, less, or forge on. A few key words keep rolling...	Mar.17.2009 The Gut I'm sitting here with a file open, waiting, waiting. Where to begin? I am about half way through the rewrite. I should push forward to the end, right? I quote John Steinbeck in Writers at Work, Penquin edition: "Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is...
Mar.09.2009 Butt in the Chair I had a fun and interesting talk with the women's book club of OutLoud Books in Nashville yesterday. They seemed intrigued by my routine of getting up at 2 or 3 am every morning to write. I verified that this is absolutely true, every morning, seven days a week. They seemed to think this indicates...