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Meg's Latest Blogs

May.22.2012 - 9:19 am
  Because I’m a book person who loves film (even though I’m generally disappointed in the movie version of any book I have loved), I turned with great excitement to “Cannes...
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Nov.22.2011 - 12:48 pm
Uh-oh. The year’s “great books” lists have begun. Female authors have put on our literary heels and danced backward as well as we can, but it looks again like we’re going to be...
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Oct.22.2011 - 9:19 am
"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language,...
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Jul.30.2011 - 12:30 pm
I've often said writing a novel is like running a marathon, but I'm beginning to think it's more like making a jigsaw puzzle: The charge of the first draft is to get the pieces...
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Comments from Meg

Oct.22.2011 - 9:12 am
In response to: Murders, Mayhem, and Moxie: Litquake Women's Night 2011
This was SO MUCH FUN!
Mar.07.2011 - 11:04 am
In response to: Writing a Novel is Like Paddling a Bathtub
Alas, my drain appears to be open this morning... Meg Waite Clayton bestselling author of the THE FOUR MS. BRADWELLS (...
Dec.07.2010 - 12:09 pm
In response to: A Date which will Live in Infamy, and the Value of a Word
Thank you, Kathy! I'm a long-ago history major who never abandoned that love, so quite enjoyed making a little foray...
Sep.18.2010 - 12:22 pm
In response to: The Dad App
What we really need now is the ET App. As in "Phone home." :-) Meg Waite Clayton author of the bestselling novel, THE...
Aug.09.2010 - 5:50 pm
In response to: Apple Pie
So lovely, Liz. Esp. imagine at end. :-) Meg Waite Clayton author of the bestselling novel, THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS Meg...