Pseudonyms in a Time of Social Media: It Ain’t the Old Days

April 24th, 2012 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • [cross-posted at my personal website and Inside the Writers' Studio] In 1987, Joyce Carol Oates was revealed to be Rosamond Smith, the author of Lives of the Twins, a mystery novel slated for publication the same year as You Must Remember This, a “real” Oates novel. Oates was disappointed to have been discovered–”I wanted to

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  • A Sticky Spot: Should Authors Review Other Authors?

    April 18th, 2012 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • Last week, I read two new (to me) books, one by Ms. X and one by Ms. Y. I found the books after I found the authors. Ms. Y had been a Facebook friend of mine for some time, but as is common with Facebook friends, I didn’t really know her. As much as I [...]

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  • Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi

    April 17th, 2012 | Posted by: Home,Kristen Tsetsi,Our Books

  • “I smell yoru shirt sometimes, but not foten,” Mia writes, those slurred keyboard strokes the only connection to her deployed beloved, who she sees everywhere and nowhere in the demure military town. A former English professor, Mia passes the time working as a cab driver, mulling over the intricacies of her encounters with others who [...]

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  • The looming extinction of everyday art & history.

    June 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • I was lightly accused, in a recent discussion on the Kindle Boards, of “railing against” ebooks when I posted the following message: There’s been a lot of talk lately about ebooks, the death of the print book, etc., and after reading yet another such article (on my computer, ironically) I immediately posted this facebook status: [...]

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  • “Writing, Time Management, and You”

    March 22nd, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • Life is short, and the business of self-publishing, while completely joyful, can also make you want to stab yourself in the throat – but in the end, what’s most important is to remember why we write. Or rather, why we don’t. [ad#selfpublish]

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  • Introducing Paper Rats

    February 20th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • “Inside the Writers Studio,” is a video blog series created by R.J. Keller and Kristen Tsetsi. You can find “Inside the Writers Studio” (a PaperRats production) on its YouTube page, be a friend on Facebook, and/or follow on Twitter. Watch the first episode, “Raving Reviews”:

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  • A strangely heated topic.

    January 16th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • “Hey, now,” I say, as someone who doesn’t want kids. “My lifestyle is hardly ‘variant’…”

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  • What does it say about me that I like the suicidal writers?

    January 11th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • There would have been something at once flattering and scary about being taken into her little Algonquin circle (as if I would have been!), and more unnerving would probably have been the way she would look at a new person, followed by the creative ways she would find to insult them that probably wouldn’t really hurt until two hours later when what she said finally settled in.

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  • What are you reading?

    December 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • (Cross-posted from my blog, “From a Little Office in a Little House“) It’s been a long time since I’ve taken the time to sit around and read. In high school I always had a book. Always. I would read while I walked, while I ate, while a teacher lectured, and any time waiting was involved [...]

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  • Interview with Kristen J. Tsetsi – CONTEST CLOSED

    October 23rd, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi,Uncategorized

  • BK: The subject of military separation lends itself to gravity and heartache. Yet, you’re funny. And the book is darkly humorous. I think you need to explain yourself!

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