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julia-flynn-siler's picture
Jun.11.2008
I’ve met a lot of wonderful people while touring to promote the paperback release of The House of Mondavi, but surely one of the most memorable was...
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louise-marley's picture
Jun.11.2008
One of the confounding things that happens after a writer has published a few novels is being asked to write blurbs for new books.  We have to decide...
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alan-goldsher's picture
Jun.11.2008
I'm working on a proposal for my next two chicklit books, thus I plan to have a big bowl of estrogen for breakfast.
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john-elder-robison's picture
Jun.11.2008
A few weeks ago, Dianna Heitz of Northwestern University's Medill School drove up to film me for a story on Asperger's. She's got a brother on the...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jun.11.2008
Guess who royally blew it? Guess who had two tickets booked to Guadalajara next week? Guess who writes books and articles and serves as an "...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jun.11.2008
When I was little, cereal used to be very important to me.  I wanted to eat the cereals that were advertised on the television, the cereals with the...
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katie-macalister's picture
Jun.11.2008
It's humpy day again. Funny how these seem to roll around once a week (except when I forget to notice them). Today's Hump Day Question is about...
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gerard-jones's picture
Jun.11.2008
The condemnation of the world is one thing. Americans are used to that. But there's something especially humbling about being viewed, not with fear...
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alex-fraser's picture
Jun.10.2008
 June 30, 2008:  As I say, I must get My Blog in gear.    The weather on the West Coast, particularly in Northern California, has been unseasonably ...
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jess-wells's picture
Jun.10.2008
Susie Bright is constructing a new volume, this one to be an object d'art involving erotica with a gothic theme.  Chronicle Books is putting it out...
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shannon-mcginnis's picture
Jul.17.2008
Take 10 minutes to photocopy all of the important items in your wallet right now. Be sure to photocopy the back and front of your driver’s license,...
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vincent-herrmann's picture
Jul.17.2008
I am a poet, I have a three or four poems published through contests. I want to know how to publish more such as this one amybe into a book. A man...
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kissa-starling's picture
Jul.17.2008
I'm so excited about being a member of the Red Room. I found out about this site from a fellow author who taught me a lot about promotion.   I am...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jul.17.2008
              I just finished a bio about Chez Panisse, the la-di-da restaurant in Berkeley. Right near my bed is a copy of Eleanor Coppola's book...
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richard-galbraith's picture
Jul.17.2008
Originally posted at - http://www.cementum.co.uk This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while now, considering all the traveling I’ve been...
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sue-glasco's picture
Jul.16.2008
“Grandma, can we make corn dogs?’  (Never mind, that we just ate supper a little after six—less than three hours ago.)Actually, I was glad that while...
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g-m-shepley's picture
Jul.16.2008
I am tired. I am tired because of work.  I am tired of having to be on my feet for ten hours straight. I wake up at 6 a.m., off to work at 7 a.m.,...
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former member's picture
Jul.16.2008
by former member
  In March 2007, the FermiLab Office of Public Affairs in Batavia, IL "received a curious message in code" via USPS. In May 2008,...
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steven-ekstrom's picture
Jul.16.2008
I have to admit--it's pretty amazing when you get to hold a physical copy of something you created when it hits shelves.  I'm in San Diego--and the...
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jennifermassoni's picture
Jul.16.2008
What a night! It was so wonderful to meet so many of our local authors who gathered at literary institution Tosca last night for a swell party. I...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.