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Boston Globe: Five Laws of the Novelist

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , on July 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

An article in this morning’s Boston Globe picks up rather nicely where we left off last week. On Thursday, Brittany expressed her frustration with the process of finding a publisher and I wrote a rather lengthy comment about publishing in general (which hopefully helps spur our writers to action, rather than prompts them jump out [...]

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Brittany: In Defense of the Novelist

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , , on July 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Recently, on my personal blog, I wrote about my latest rejection from the world of publishing. After asking to see my full manuscript, it was rejected one hour and seven minutes after I submitted it. That stings and I’m grumpy about it. But probably not for the reasons you’d expect.
I’m not one of those writers who thinks [...]

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Jenn: Running and Writing

Posted in Jenn, tagged , on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted.  Summer was crazy with teaching, then my daughter, parents, and I spent 3 weeks in very remote coastal Maine and New Brunswick.  No phones, no internet, no tv, bliss.  Now I’m back in the swing of things, and the textbook is progressing rapidly.  I have 20 [...]

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Cathy: Moving along

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , on September 18, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I have committed significant time each day to work on my young reader novel. Thank you for many of your posts and conversations to motivate me to do such a thing for myself and my book. A very real sacrifice is involved for our family, the fact that I have no steady income. So, I’m [...]

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New literary journal: Wild Apples

Posted in Miranda, tagged on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Wild Apples is a new literary/arts magazine being published by a group of amazing women–two of whom (artist Linda Hoffman and poet Susan Edwards Richmond) I interviewed for my book on creativity and motherhood.
Taking its name and inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Wild Apples,” this twice-yearly arts and literary publication combines poetry and prose [...]

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Miranda: Another perspective on rejection

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on April 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Those of you who receive the Glimmer Train newsletter may have seen this already, but for everyone else, here’s a reassuring take on rejection from Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay it Forward among other novels. An excerpt from her article:
It might sound like dwelling on the negative if I say I received 122 short [...]

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Suzanne: An Introduction

Posted in Suzanne, tagged , , on April 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I’m an American living in Japan with my Japanese baseball coach husband and our eight-year-old twins. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a writer. I’ve been writing stories and novels since childhood. This year – after five attempts at writing a novel – I have [...]

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Brittany: Where’s the finish line?

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , , on April 5, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Christa’s post last week left me with a lot to think about. I’m sure I had read it before, that authors are often judged on the basis of their debut novel’s sales, that depending on its success and failure, a career can be born or lost. I probably skimmed over that part in some guide [...]

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Christa: Confession time

Posted in Christa, tagged , , on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’m going to admit to something that I haven’t wanted to admit to myself for a long time: the reason for my creative funk, all my questioning and browbeating, is at heart a temper tantrum. Why? Because I didn’t get my way.
By now, I was “supposed to” have landed an agent. I really was convinced [...]

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