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Jun.06.2008
Right now, I'm juggling two new novels I've started, a screenplay, and waiting for edits from my editor for my 9th novel, which is now called BREATHE. (It was Traveling Angels.) I keep thinking there is something wrong about this, that I should just settle on one project and lose myself in it, but...
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Jun.02.2008
Beginning a novel is really like being caught in a waking dream. I'm too far in to go back, but the road ahead of me seems littered with poisonous snakes and bugs the size of a Jupiter (plus, they hiss.) I have been whining and complaining to my husband who looks at me with great amusement and says...
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May.31.2008
I've been reminded that I haven't been blogging here. Part of that is because I have another blog (http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/) but the other part is because I've SOLD MY 9th NOVEL!!! Yes, I'm celebrating, yes I am deliriously happy and excited, but I've also learned that I am...
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Feb.21.2008
Rachel Cline's terrific novel, My Liar, explores the complex, thorny relationship between two women--a Hollywood film editor and a director. Like her fabulous debut, What To Keep, this novel is complex, gorgeously written and absolutely addictive. That's her, by the way, in the winsome photo. Isn't...
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Feb.04.2008
Is it true? The Writers Strike may be over this week? And pint-sized politics
Oh God, would this be FANTASTIC if the writers strike were over! I cannot wait, I cannot wait. I have all these ideas for scripts I want to do.
But on the political front, yesterday we drove two 9th grade boys along with...
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Feb.01.2008
From Jeff Lyon's great blog,In these dangerous, polarizing, and sometimes too politically correct times, writers who bravely tackle issues of international or homeland security, or U.S. involvement in you-know-where, and who are not sufficiently cautious to keep at least one creative foot firmly...
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Jan.29.2008
Writers are a solitary bunch. We live in our heads and in our work, and come out to do readings. But when one of our own is in trouble, we all band together as a community and help out. Case in point: Patry Francis.
Patry’s Francis’s debut THE LIAR’S DIARY came out in hardcover from Dutton last...
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Jan.24.2008
I'm thrilled to report that my award-winning story BREATHE, which became part of my just finished novel Traveling Angels, is going to be part of The Best of The Bellevue Literary Review. I'm also really jazzed that I am going to be reading with Bellevue at the AWP this Thursday. I hope anyone out...
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Jan.23.2008
I messed up. I thought the correct url for Storygeeks (I can't figure out how to changean already published blog. Does anyone know?) is
http://www.storygeeks.blogspot.com. However Jeff assures me it won't work with the www in there, so thry http://storygeeks.blogspot.com. If all else fails, google...
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Jan.23.2008
I'm a fanatic about story structure. I think it's the thing that saves you when you have 600 pages of a novel and you have no idea what it's about or where to go or what to do (except possibly hurling yourself out the window after your computer. My friend Jeff Lyons has a new blog/company with the...
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Jan.08.2008
I admit I have been ranting about this at my other blog, but I think I need to rant about it here as well.
I know, I know. My health insurance saga is not a pretty one.
My husband and I are both writers so we pay for our own health insurance. Because we live in NYC's unofficial 6th borough, Hoboken...
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Jan.07.2008
Please visit http://www.cheneycare.org and sign the petition so all of us can have the same quality health care Cheny does. It's very important. Please.
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Jan.03.2008
The photo of the handsome man over there is one of my oldest and best friends, Peter Salzano. I met Peter millions of years ago and together we've braved dating, divorce, birth, death of loved ones, marriage and illness. He spoke at my wedding and I toasted him at his (to the extraordinary Doug)....
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Jan.01.2008
OK, I admit it. I make resolutions and never keep any of them, although I did manage to stop biting my nails last year and now have ten (count 'em) gorgeous looking fingers. (Blue nail polish, anyone?) But in the spirit of the new year, I've decided the following:
1. Write harder with more blood on...
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Dec.14.2007
This is a fabulous looking site and I do want to say that it only took me four tries to get my info up here! I've finished my writing for the day (a new novel, set in 1950s suburbia) and I have only to grapple with the mouse who has taken up residence in hour house. He laughs at our pitiful...
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About Caroline
Caroline Leavitt's 9th novel, Pictures of You, was published by Algonquin Books in 2011 and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of eight other novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air,...
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