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Being Discovered: First-Time Authors Reveal All

Sep.30.2009

Learn from a panel of newly published, first-time writers about all that was involved in making their dream of writing a reality. Topics covered will include: finding the time and discipline to regularly write, identifying potential publishers, getting noticed by literary professionals, dealing with rejection, and publicizing your book. The authors will also talk about the literary communities they belong to, and how these played a role in the journey to publication.

Kemble's Latest Blogs

Sep.27.2010 - 6:31 pm
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If you have any intention of traveling to China, then don’t tell anyone working at the Chinese consulate that you’re a writer. That’s the lesson I learned when I went on a...
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Sep.11.2009 - 4:16 pm
The New York Times puts its spin on the story: Scribd’s E-Book Store Jump-Starts The Sower’s to Mainstream Success  
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Sep.10.2009 - 11:29 am
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Book publishing is famously subjective, and authors who survive learn to have thick skins. But no matter how tanned your literary hide is, when a “no thanks” letter arrives, you’...
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Jun.04.2009 - 4:57 pm
The Sower
 The Da Vinci Code meets Sex and The Cityin this darkly comic thrillerabout an STD people are dying to get   My new novel The Sower is a morality tale, completely...
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Comments from Kemble

Sep.10.2009 - 11:01 pm
In response to: House in Vermont - Tackling a touchy subject in my new novel THE SOWER
The irony, of course, is that this is a novel. Fiction. The character and his "House in Vermont" exist only on paper....
Nov.03.2008 - 7:21 pm
In response to: Prop 8 and God - A challenge to the views of author Rick Warren
Kemble Scott Author SoMa
Nov.03.2008 - 7:21 pm
In response to: Prop 8 and God - A challenge to the views of author Rick Warren
Kemble Scott Author SoMa  What amazes me about the religious leaders is how they don't seem to understand how one act...
Nov.03.2008 - 7:14 pm
In response to: Prop 8 and God - A challenge to the views of author Rick Warren
Kemble Scott Author SoMa  The Cable Act was the most obscure to find. I had no idea the U.S. government had done such a...
Nov.03.2008 - 7:12 pm
In response to: Prop 8 and God - A challenge to the views of author Rick Warren
Kemble Scott Author SoMa   It does make you wonder, doesn't it? Thanks for the reply.

Published Reviews

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Jun.01.2007
Published by Curve Magazine
"The founder and editor of SoMa Literary Review, Kemble Scott channeled his fascination with San Francisco's South of Market district — an industrial dead land populated by...