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Jul.06.2011
Today I'm raising a glass to the launch of my first adult novel, Game of Sails. Straight up, with an e-twist! And to celebrate I'm offering a few lucky blog readers a coupon for a free download.
Recently, traditional publishing has been turned on its ear by the digital age. Agents offer publishing...
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Jun.18.2011
Twenty-six years ago I made the colossal leap from typewriter to computer, a transition so liberating it is quite simply impossible to imagine ever going back. Suddenly my fingers could keep up with my imagination and typos could be dealt with after the story was captured! Look ma, no whiteout.
And...
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Feb.28.2011
As an athlete, I've learned that if you want to be better at something, you practice. Repetition makes the necessary physical moves automatic, freeing the brain to make good decisions.
I’ve tried to apply that to fiction writing, putting in the hours at my desk even when it was a struggle,...
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Jan.28.2011
I was lucky enough to score an early copy of Deep Down True at the bookstore in the Providence airport last Friday, and I devoured the book over the course of a long weekend. Good news: I loved it. Bad news: “just one more chapter” took a large chunk out of my beauty sleep. Thanks for the eye...
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Oct.07.2010
Before the last leaf fell, she would go. Climb out of this bed. Crawl down the narrow staircase. Slam the door on sadness.
An ancient maple branch hung just outside her window, its bark as wrinkly and lined as an old woman's hand. If she didn't get out of here soon her own smooth skin would...
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Oct.07.2010
I figured I’d like Sea Escape, since it was set, mostly, in a house on the beach just south of Boston. I’m also a sucker for stories that reveal the mysteries of a family’s past. But it’s the writing that really drew me into the world of Laura and Helen, into their spellbinding tangle of old love...
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Sep.21.2010
“Author’s Corner - what’s that?”
“You wrote these books yourself?”
“What age group are they meant for?”
“Where do I find a bathroom?”
Those are just a random sampling of the many questions I answered this past weekend at the Newport International Boat Show. Probably not the first place you...
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Jul.06.2010
What a party it was! I heard someone ask, “Why isn’t the Boston Globe here? This is an EVENT.” On Thursday, July 1 2010 we launched Cape Cod Surprise. The weather was perfect; sunny but not too hot, and not a speck of humidity (by Boston standards at least). The Sail Loft generously provided...
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Jun.14.2010
Now for the fun part! The launch party for Cape Cod Surprise will take place at the Sail Loft in Boston’s North End on Thursday, July 1. The event will be a chance to meet some new characters, reunite with faces familiar from Oliver’s Surprise… and best of all, raise money for a great cause....
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Apr.24.2010
I spent summers on Cape Cod as a kid, and as soon as I graduated from college I moved there. I still get back as often as possible to visit family and friends. And this past year I spent a lot of time dreaming about the area as I wrote and edited my second book, “Cape Cod Surprise.” So when I saw...
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Apr.21.2010
It’s not often that my book life and my sailing life overlap, but it happened last week. In one week, I checked off two of my biggest goals for 2010.
Last Friday, I submitted a file (only ten minutes late) that represented almost a year of hard work. Cape Cod Surprise, complete with layout and...
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Mar.25.2010
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about success. Not the standard question, "how can I be more successful?” (which is usually just a tasteful coverup for “how can I make more money?”)
My question is completely different: Have I already succeeded, and just failed to notice?
From 2000-2004, one...
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Feb.17.2010
This post first appeared as a guest blog on Paula Margulies' "Helpful Tips for Book Promotion."
Last fall I got a long-awaited email from writer Roberta Gately: “I sold my book!” Her novel “Lipstick in Afghanistan” (which I’d edited, early on) will be published in October 2010.
We...
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Jan.30.2010
You may have already read a review of The Murderer’s Daughters, by Redroom author and (full disclosure) friend Randy Susan Meyers. I’m quite surprised to find myself recommending it. To be honest, for the first month I knew this book existed, I dreaded having to read it.
Randy is the leader by...
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Jan.01.2010
My sister Nancy has a theory, or at least she did when we were growing up: that the world is quietly spinning faster with each passing year. That was how she explained the complaint of every grownup—that time goes by faster and faster, the older we get.xMuch as I’d love for my sister to be wrong...
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About Carol
Carol Newman Cronin has written fiction since she was a child, but she had to wait until she was forty-four to get her first book published. In 2004 she crowned a lifetime of sailing achievement by winning two races for the USA at the Olympics. Since...
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Causes Carol CRONIN Supports
Jamestown Historical Society, Dutch Island Lighthouse Society, Our Sisters School, Piers Park Sailing Center