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October 12, 2007 09:46 AM UTC --
How many times have you watched a romantic comedy in which the newly married groom dreads the task of writing all those thank you cards? I suppose if you have a huge wedding with a guest list full of . . .
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September 26, 2007 07:37 AM UTC --
Are you eager to write your first book? Trying to figure out how long it should be? Do you think page count is irrelevant? Think again. In the publishing business, size does matter!
Many publishers . . .
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September 11, 2007 09:35 AM UTC --
If you work and live in the same space, how do you separate the two? It’s not always easy, especially if you have the opportunity to do what you’re passionate about.
I left my full-time job . . .
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September 04, 2007 06:56 PM UTC --
According to Samir A. Husni of MrMagazine.com, 700 to 1,000 magazines are launched every year. He should know, he’s the author of the annual Samir Husni’s Guide to New Magazines, and as the . . .
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August 26, 2007 05:25 PM UTC --
In the world of literature, feminist criticism is not about the rights' of women, but the representation' of women. When the feminist movement was on the rise in the 1950's and 1960's, . . .
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August 24, 2007 02:14 PM UTC --
Ok, you’ve finished your manuscript. You’ve sent out query letters. You finally have a nibble! Someone wants to see a couple chapters and a synopsis. This is your last chance to reel them . . .
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August 22, 2007 10:30 AM UTC --
Do you remember the book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? Although I remember reading the poetry of Where the Sidewalk Ends when I was just a child, I was in my early twenties before I read The Giving . . .
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August 21, 2007 10:32 AM UTC --
Repeat after me, "In the great green room . . ." If you know what comes next, you've fallen under the hypnotic spell of Margaret Wise Brown, author of over one hundred stories and books and . . .
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August 18, 2007 11:27 AM UTC --
I admit it. I’m a classic overachiever. I’m never satisfied with doing well. I’m pushing for Wow!
I have a difficult time committing to anything I’m not passionate about. A . . .
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August 15, 2007 03:59 PM UTC --
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon Board Book and Slippers. HarperCollins. Sept. 2007 c. 34p. ISBN 978-0-06-123902-1. $19.99 Preschool: Newborn-3
Goodnight Moon is sure to enchant any child with . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:03 AM UTC --
Just days before my first semester of college, I was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. Misdiagnosed twice, an entopic pregnancy had gone unchecked and I was eight hours from hemorrhaging to . . .
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August 14, 2007 07:14 PM UTC --
As Audre Lord says, “where the words of women are crying out to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out”. Therefore, today’s post is not about . . .
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August 14, 2007 07:29 AM UTC --
Writing effective query letters is an essential skill for any writer seeking publication. In the age of electronic communication, the process of querying magazines and literary journals is faster and . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:02 AM UTC --
The Guy Not Taken will touch you with its bitter-sweet intimacy. This bestselling collection of eleven short stories by Jennifer Weiner illustrates the profound impact of human connection in a witty, . . .
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August 11, 2007 03:20 PM UTC --
Today marks the thirty-sixth year since my birth in the dewey, pre-dawn hours of Portland, Maine. After hours of labor, I was placed my mother’s stomach as they announced “it’s . . .
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August 10, 2007 08:34 AM UTC --
There’s a catch 22 in publishing. You have to be published to get published. Well, that’s not entirely true, but close. Major publishers often want to see a list of publishing . . .
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August 08, 2007 12:43 PM UTC --
Visit any writer’s forum and you’ll find this debate: traditional publishing vs. self-publishing. The debate often becomes heated as writers (often amature) hash out the pros and cons of going . . .
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August 07, 2007 11:14 PM UTC --
Welcome fellow readers. Please, help yourself to some coffee and take a seat. Today we have a special guest, Ellen Meister, who is here to answer a few questions about her book Secret Confessions of The . . .
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August 06, 2007 02:58 PM UTC --
Desperate Housewives Highjack the PTA!
Ellen Meister has whipped up a batch of literary brain candy with her first novel Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA. If you have an appetite for witty . . .
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May 22, 2007 06:06 PM UTC --
Many consider Virginia Woolf to be one of the greatest innovators in the English language. As an early modernist and feminist, Woolf predicted that female voices would gradually change the very language . . .
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