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November 5, 2009
- At some point early on in the marketing of Shimmer, someone at Unbridled, the publisher, asked me to write up a quick blurb about where I like to eat in Memphis. It seemed like a simple request, I'm sure. My response: You of course have no idea how deeply you've stepped into one of the strangest of my habits. I am a person with many particular habits, rituals in a way, each day structured around ...
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November 4, 2009
- Hey everyone,This is my first ever post on RR. And today, I am going to talk to you all about book shops. Interested yet?Of course, a book shop is every reader and writer's favorite place to be. It's filled with the world's bestest things; books. And man, how I love the look of book shops. They are so graceful, always calling you to disappear in them for ever and ever. Of course, I am in love ...
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November 3, 2009
- "It's fun," insisted fellow writer Nathan Crowder so I signed up for my first NaNoWriMo. This month, I'm already committed to doing a short story for Crowder's Cobalt City Christmas Carol chapbook (try saying that three times fast!). Also I'm expecting the revisions for my story appearing Apex's Close Encounters of the Urban Kind next summer.But Nate's a persuasive guy and sometime last ...
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November 3, 2009
- This is just a quick note to report on the progress of my Nanowrimo novel for the year, "Heart of a Dragon." I've been working on it for three days now, and have just passed the ten thousand word point. It's a good start. I always suggest that people binge write at the beginning to get a buffer zone built up for the days when writing just isn't possible. As usual I have set up a ...
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November 3, 2009
- I am delighted that so many writers have thoughts on writing and place that they want to share with me. Writer and blogger Rachel Fenton blogs at Snow Like Thought. Here are Rachel's answers to my questionnaire:TH: Where are you?RF: I'm sitting in my bedroom, with the curtains drawn (all white but for a chest of antique drawers, a bookcase, a 1960s school desk and two of my paintings), in a ...
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October 31, 2009
- Allow me to tempt you away from Halloween candy and the looming specter of NaNoWriMo to relax with an excerpt from my novel HIGHWAY TO OBLIVION. I promise an easy read, nothing painful, nothing controversial. THE PLAN --- Lily Buchanan had grown up in a little nameless town “in the South.” ...
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October 30, 2009
- One of my first workshop projects in graduate school was a short story about a character who crashed a Halloween party wearing a sheet. I was feeling nostalgic for New England and the red and yellow leaves of fall. The temperatures on October 31 in Fairbanks had reached fifty-below-zero. The kids near the university canvassed the streets dressed as little Michelin Men, each of them awkwardly ...
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October 29, 2009
- This is what is happening today folks in publishing and its just the beginning. Publishing is changing and so are the contracts. Here is what is agents are doing right now, and this is the first of many I suspect creative inititatives by one of the worlds largest media companies. "Agents are poring over a new contract boilerplate issued by Macmillan, parent company of St. Martin's, Farrar ...
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October 26, 2009
- Today, my third book is in the computer. The trilogy: Five Years Lying, Mandie Faradin, and Hope's Herald begins in 2007 and ends in 2025. Since 2024, no one in North America heard the devastating diagnosis, "You have cancer." A work of fiction it is, but it doesn't have to be. Fiction is a slippery slope. As I've talked with agents and publishers, they have asked me to ...
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October 24, 2009
- Patina saw the bear before the bear saw Patina. Oh, m’God. Do I back up or run? No, not run. Could never outrun it. Her brain itself was racing. Her feet had not moved, yet in her mind she was fleeing down the long driveway at Olympian speed. Where was the dog? She could back ...
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