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Jun.16.2010
The only thing I didn't love about Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace was finishing it, because then it was over and I had to leave her world. Lucky you...
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Jun.28.2010
Just when you think you're done with revision, guess what? There's room to do one more (or maybe two, or three.) The smarted thing my agent did for...
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Jun.29.2010
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham Micro-revision // First Steps After the macro revision and after deconstructing...
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Jul.23.2010
I read a post on author Tayari Jones’ blog earlier this month, that hasn’t left my mind. She asks why books by black writers aren’t considered...
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Jul.29.2010
"But it really happened." I was in an adult-ed writer's group when I first heard this. I watched the woman become tenser and grimmer as the...
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Aug.26.2010
Writers talk much and write much (including me) about the difficulty of finding that perfect first line. Sometimes I want to create entire books...
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Oct.04.2010
When we were younger (in our twenties) my best friend and I talked about the unimaginable horror of being without each other. Now that we're older,...
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Oct.22.2010
There something a little creepy about knowing that as my friends, family, neighbors, and mailman read the novel I wrote, that they're probably...
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Nov.24.2010
Libraries: Librarians recommend our books, buy our books, shelve our books, and provide forums for us to discuss our books. Now we can support the...
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Dec.10.2010
Want to make a writer shudder? Ask them if they’ve queried yet. Last year I led a workshop on The Great American Query Letter and the participants...
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Feb.27.2009
That rockin' annual festival of all things Jewish begins today! We're there, of course, sharing the love by giving away hundreds of copies of Cool...
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anne-brooke's picture
Jan.26.2009
A mixed bag of a day today, and a real feeling of Monday gloom and existential terror. Dammit. How I hate days when I feel like this. I’ve taken my...
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Mar.05.2009
Oh bliss. I've had a whole day today when I haven't had to leave the flat once and I've spoken to and seen no-one but Lord H. Really, my dears, it's...
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anne-brooke's picture
Mar.10.2009
Was much taken by this morning’s bible reading by the inclusion of silver trumpets (anyone remember that old song, “Send me down my silver trumpet,...
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May.12.2009
A small but perfectly formed (if I even dare say that!...) blog today: First off, am very pleased to see that my article on writing sex is now at the...
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May.24.2009
I am being organised and focused today, or trying to. Ho hum. But I must admit that when I'm seriously editing, the rest of my life does rather get...
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anne-brooke's picture
Jun.03.2009
I think I’m going through my monthly slump at the moment – feeling very flat and low, but have taken my usual supply of Happy Pills this morning (...
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anne-brooke's picture
Jun.04.2009
Am very pleased to say that my review of Alex Beecroft's False Colors, together with further thoughts about the welcome onward march of gay fiction,...
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anne-brooke's picture
Jul.22.2009
Was very happy to have received this five-star review of The Bones of Summer from Rosy on Goodreads: “This was a great read. Told from the viewpoint...
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Jul.30.2009
Just had time to fit in a poem before rushing into town this morning, so here it is: Meditation 186 He speaks in riddles,puzzles, running phrasesof...
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