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Oct.06.2011
Tribute:
noun 1. a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem. 2. a stated sum or other valuable consideration paid by one sovereign or state to another in acknowledgment of subjugation or as the price of peace, security, protection, or...
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Jun.28.2011
Alice Street Editions has released a new edition of this 1986 novel by author Katherine V. Forrest, originally published by Naiad Press. If you read this novel long ago, it is worth the purchase price just to read the foreword from the author and the afterword written by Victoria A. Brownworth. But...
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Jun.28.2011
I just finished re-reading Desert of the Heart, written by Jane Rule, for about the twentieth time. It is a remarkable, perfect little book. I have almost memorized certain lines and phrases, and I am certain that this work, all Jane Rule's work, has influenced my own. It says what it has to say,...
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Jun.13.2011
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...
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Jun.13.2011
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...
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May.02.2011
The Bywater authors blog tour continues in May, beginning with myself. Here is the May schedule:
Bett appears on the following blogs on the following days:
Marianne K Martin 5/2
Lindy Cameron 5/4
Georgia 5/6
Lisa 5/9
Sally 5/11
Jill 5/13
Georgia appears on the following blogs...
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Sep.29.2009
bettnorris | Edit
From the foot of Dexter Avenue, looking toward the capitol.
Sometimes, it begins with an image in my head, sometimes, it starts with stumbling across an old photo, like this one.
I lived in Montgomery for 13 years, and worked in a state building behind the...
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Sep.11.2009
Only four weeks until Women’s Week in Provincetown. I’m getting excited, folks. It’s going to be fun. Lots of things happening. Great entertainment lined up. And Bywater Books will be there to provide you with chances to meet some of its authors. Bywater has several book signing events scheduled...
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Sep.01.2009
Join Bywater Books authors Marianne K. Martin, Z Egloff, Mari SanGiovanni, Bett Norris, Cynn Chadwick, and Marcia Finical for a week of book signings, a wine and cheese party, and a discussion of Herstory/Yourstory with comedian/author Kate Clinton on Saturday, October 17, from 10:30 am till noon,...
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Aug.20.2009
I stepped on a dead lizard this morning. It was in my living room. Two cats lay suspiciously draped on the furniture, sound asleep, I assume. This is my life now, living with two cats. Recently, my partner, renowned animal lover and wrangler Sandy Moore, disappeared for a...
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Aug.02.2009
Family
MamaPosted at 06:59 AM on May 15, 2007
You know, this past week has been amazing, and in many ways, life altering. I want to tell everything that happened, to leave nothing out, but as I sit here, back at home after the literary conference in New Orleans at which my novel Miss McGhee...
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Jul.31.2009
I'm trying to count how many web sites/blogs I have and maintain. It all started with my web site, www.bettnorris.com, which still feels more like home than any other site or blog. Then I learned about MySpace. I created a page there, and posted blogs, usually copying the lates blog from my web...
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Jul.19.2009
Here's the Bywater P-Town schedule for Womens's Week. We are looking forward to a great week of promotion and fun, so come join us!
Thursday, Oct 15
2-4pm: Bywater authors signing at Womencrafts Bookstore. Marianne K. Martin, Cynn Chadwick, Mari San Giovanni, Z Egloff, and Marcia Finical, and...
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Jul.04.2009
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...
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Jun.30.2009
Miss McLeod was a formidable woman whose family was very prominent and respected, who owned what was once the largest house in town, right next to the post office. The house, a huge, two-story Victorian, and the lot take up most of a city block. Miss McLeod lived at home with her parents all...
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About Bett
Born and raised in Alabama, I grew up about forty miles from Harper Lee's home town. It was inevitable that her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, influenced my writing. I graduated from the University of Alabama with a BA in history and a burning desire to write...
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NOAIDS, New Orleans, http://www.noaidstaskforce.org/...