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Jan.09.2010 - 8:46 am
Born Grown Up
I think I was born grown up. As the first child of a mother ill prepared for parenthood, I was a starchy baby with a straight back, ready to be the backbone of the family if need...
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Jan.08.2010 - 9:47 am
Correction to The Marketing Slog
Correction to my blog entry: The Marketing Slog. Link to A Marketing Expert is incorrect. Here's the correct one. AME.
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Jan.08.2010 - 9:38 am
The Marketing Slog
While writing feeds as well as challenges my spirit, I find that marketing my published book can easily deflate me. So balance is essential: write, market, cook, do yoga, in that...
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Dec.30.2009 - 1:48 pm
Happiness?
Maggie Kast Freud may have suffered from Northern European grouchiness when he allegedly said that the most we can hope for is "ordinary unhappiness,"but the idea of...
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Jul.15.2010 - 8:37 am
In response to: Always happy to give advice (sometimes unsolicited!)
a book's second year
Maggie Kast Thanks to Lloyd for great summary of effective blogging! As the first anniversary of the publication of my...
Feb.26.2010 - 12:53 pm
In response to: Tweeting Your Way to an Audience
evaluating links in social media
Maggie Kast I've just learned about this way of checking on who (and when and where) is using the links in your tweets...
Feb.05.2010 - 10:22 am
In response to: Going Digital, Your Experience?
how to get book on Kindle
Maggie Kast I've just encountered a potential reader who can't read paper books (because of Parkinsonism) and only...
Feb.05.2010 - 10:10 am
In response to: Announcing Your Book, "What works?"
DIY promotion
Maggie Kast Thanks for the amazing number of tips, especially about internet resources such as slide show and free...
Jan.27.2010 - 8:45 am
In response to: Literary Anthology Legalities
previously published work in an anthology
Maggie Kast A chapter of my book, The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family, is...

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About Maggie

My memoir, The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss and faith, was published by Wipf and Stock Publishers on August 1, 2009. After a lifetime career in dance, I received an M.F.A. in fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2001. I've...
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Maggie’s Favorite Books

Revolutionary Road, Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Atonement, On Chesil Beach, Saturday