September 7th, 2009 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks
My panel proposal for this topic has been accepted at the country’s largest gathering of creative writers, the AWP Convention, which will be held in Denver in April. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) includes individual writers and most graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs in this country and Canada. Alternate forms of [...]
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September 4th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Because my memories of Fargo are still vivid (I lived there for seven years), having Mia move around that apartment was easy enough while she was inside. All I had to do was remember my time there the first four months Ian was gone. Dredging up the emotions was absolutely no trouble.
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September 2nd, 2009 | Posted by: R.J. Keller
Author Stacey Cochran has recently started an online tv interview show on UStream called BookChatter. This Friday at 11pm (EDT), like last Friday, I’ll be a panelist - along with Holly Christine - as Stacey interviews Jamie Lynn Braziel and Sam Landstrom. The big difference this week will be that I’ll attempt a video hookup, so I won’t be able [...]
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August 31st, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
I considered it a shame that many collections had themes, a consistent tone, a voice with no inflection. It disappointed me to read collections and know what to expect from one story to the next.
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August 29th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
MAN: I’m an associate editor at Harpo, and we received a copy of Homefront. [HOLY CRAP THEY STILL HAVE IT! I SENT IT OVER A YEAR AGO!] We’re putting together a segment for Oprah’s Book Club about authors who have chosen to self-publish…
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August 27th, 2009 | Posted by: Andrew Kent
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I’m feeling a mix of dread, hope, and relief — I’m about to publish my second novel in the Johnny Denovo series.
The first book, “Spam & Eggs: A Johnny Denovo Mystery,” was greeted with a surprisingly positive set of reviews and readers who spontaneously wrote and called with excitement after finishing it, eager [...]
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August 26th, 2009 | Posted by: Henry Baum
I’m tempted to put this on the Self-Publishing Review, but I’ve made a point of not getting overly political there - but this comes out of a discussion on the site. Self-publishing is non-partisan, and in my travels in the world of self-publishing I’ve been led to some self-publishers’ blogs with a political bent [...]
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August 25th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Remember Jennifer Mee, the poor girl who had the hiccups for five weeks? She tried everything from downing pickle juice to drinking water from the wrong side of the glass to putting a post-it note on her forehead.
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August 24th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Will I be tricked into telling them which scene in the book is (mostly) true? I’d kept it a secret until recently, when I gave it away to a Stars & Stripes reporter. I don’t know why I told him about that scene. It was something I’d meant to keep to myself, because it wasn’t one of my prouder moments.
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August 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Last week, Heather J. at “Age 30+…A Lifetime of Books” (a book review blog, whose review of Homefront can be found here) allowed me space for a guest post introducing Backword Books and inviting her readers to participate in a Homefront giveaway.
Heather’s rules:
Leave a comment with your thoughts on Backword Books’ authors collective - what [...]
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