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May.24.2009
I often get e-mail from writers I don't know asking for advice. If the e-mail seems sincere I try to answer it sincerely. I do sometimes get angry missives on how unfair and/or archaic the publishing industry is, and I admit that I don't always answer those. They seem to be more of a way to let off...
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Jan.25.2009
My friends want me to write a funny book. They read my blog posts and they read my e-mails, and they write back and ask When are you going to write a funny book?
Well, chances are slim that I'll write a purely funny book. Different forms bring out different strengths for most writers. For example,...
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Jan.22.2009
I made a vow to try to start blogging regularly again, so here we go:
I was going to write about what a lousy December we had. Or, more accurately, I was going to write a beautiful ode to Niko, also known as The Troll, also known as Our Dog. Because she’s gone. And we are devastated. But I started...
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Sep.01.2008
One of the best things that has come from my writing is the opportunity to meet and make friends with amazing and talented people. You might have read some of my posts about how I met the book club that I now belong to, and while the book club itself is virtually brimming with amazing and talented...
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Aug.20.2008
Matters of Faith has been out for two weeks now, long enough that I am beginning to steadily get the questions I knew would come once readers had time to finish the book. Some are the usual questions ("Where do you get your ideas?" "Is this set in Everglades City/Chokoloskee/Goodland...
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Aug.17.2008
Kristy Kiernan: The Writer's Chatroom Celebrity Sunday
Start: 08/17/2008 - 7:00pm
End: 08/17/2008 - 9:00pm
Come webchat with me at The Writer's Chatroom Celebrity Sunday. The two hour long chat will be moderated by the divine Audrey Schaffer, who promises to keep that one guy in check.
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Aug.10.2008
I was always good at tests. After all, I moved around a lot, and the first thing they did in every school was to TEST me. Where does she fit in? How smart is she? Is she gifted? Average? Behind? Where shall we put her? What do we do with her? Is she worth extra time? Can we just ignore her?
So I...
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Aug.08.2008
The number of people who blog about books is astounding and on the rise, just like the number of children who have food allergies. And sometimes those two segments of society intersect.
Bonnie of Redlady's Reading Room fame read about Matters of Faith on A Year of Books and Booking Mama and...
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Aug.07.2008
Make your vote count! I know we're all hearing that a lot this year, but this time it's an easy, fun decision. GalleyCat, finest publishing blog in the land, is doing their annual Cat and Dog Show. The cats were a couple of weeks ago, and this week it's all about the dogs, posed, or not in my case...
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Aug.06.2008
I'm delighted to be able to invite you all over to "Backstory," where authors share what their process in writing their new book was like, what real life events might have contributed, what agonies and ecstasies they went through in writing it. Brought you you by M.J. Rose and the ever...
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Aug.05.2008
Well, first I'd like to thank the lovely folk at Red Room for that beautiful book cover up on the home page! Matters of Faith looks fabulous right there, and I'd like to lobby to make it a permanent feature. What? No? Other people get a turn? Well, fine. Still, thanks, I do appreciate it,...
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Aug.03.2008
A month or so ago I told you the story of my trip to the Southern Kentucky Reading Festival, when fellow author Tasha Alexander and I dodged semis wielding Civil War cannons and tornadoes, but wound up meeting some writers who've become grand friends and supporters.
Nathan Singer was the topic of...
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Jul.31.2008
I'm not really the kind of gal who gets excited about the newest obscure internet (yeah, that's right, I didn't capitalize it, I'm a rebel, baby) wingy-dingy. But I recently discovered (all right, technically, they reached out to me, and I am so glad they did) a truly fascinating widget (a widget...
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Jul.25.2008
Randy Pausch has died. If this does not bring tears to your eyes and fill your soul with inspiration then, frankly, just stop reading. I don't want to know why it doesn't, and I don't want to hear whatever cynical bullshit reasons you've come up with to justify it. Your soul is dead. Go away.
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Jul.18.2008
The past few years have been tough. You know, several people dying, financial/emotional strain, exhaustive Sisyphus type tough. There have been good things, of course, here and there. And I am, after all, an optimist at heart. But yowza, I hit the motherlode this week and it just seems like the bad...
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About Kristy
Kristy was born in Tennessee and raised on the beaches of southwest Florida, where she lives with her husband, Richard, and [the honored memory of ] their dog.
Her first novel, Catching Genius, published in March of 2007, was an Ingram Book Club Pick and has...