Tag: books
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November 07, 2009 10:44 AM EST --
Trying New Things
Linda Bilodeau is the author of Stepping Through Seagrass , The Wine Seekers and The Olive Branch- A Tale of Resistance. She is a student in the MFA program . . .
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January 04, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
10 THINGS THAT HAVE CHANGED SINCE I SOLD MY NOVEL
A year ago today, something incredible happened to me. Let me set the scene: It was around eleven in the morning, and I was in my study . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway, and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . .
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February 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
A child born in the streets of 18th century France, immediately discarded by its mother, sounds a first cry that both condemns his mother to death and . . .
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . .
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . .
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April 14, 2007 10:23 PM EDT --
I love it when I come upon an author who has written several books in a series. I get to start at the beginning with the first book and eventually read every book in the series. The characters . . .
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May 04, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
The first booksigning I did was at the New England Booksellers’ Association. I appeared in the Penguin booth, which gave me a terrific opportunity to meet some of the local and national sales people . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
If your virtually untouched high school copy of The Grapes of Wrath is still occupying the prize slot on your bookshelf, or if you’re still regretting . . .
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July 23, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
My initial response upon completing this novel was a sense of relief. Having devoted several years to the storyline, like many others I found myself sighing as I closed the cover and sat back to . . .
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April 26, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
Sandy Knauer's article about people we have seen in concert made me think of a few famous people I have met and what they were like. Mine are not all that famous - after all I live in Massachusetts . . .
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February 21, 2007 06:25 PM EST --
When I decided to become a ghostwriter, I was quite naive. I had been writing professionally for close to four decades and freelancing for most of that time. I had written 12 nonfiction books on a range . . .
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December 29, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
I have set a personal goal of attempting to read 50 books in the next year. Given the nature of my life it's more than an ambitious goal. The first way to accomplish a goal is to break . . .
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May 24, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have my dark children’s novel The Ghost Mirror accepted for publication by e Treasures Publishing. You can imagine how excited I was to have my novel . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
The Literary Game and How to Read It
There comes a time in every honest conversation about literature
between students and professors when the students' willingness to
accept . . .
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October 22, 2007 12:48 AM EDT --
Every writer needs an editor. No exceptions! Just for starters, there are several stages of your writing in which you might need an editor to help:
* Clarify your concept
* Plan and organize your material . . .
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January 15, 2009 03:55 PM EST --
Per Publisher's Weekly , it looks like Barnes & Noble is dropping the axe on 100 positions from the corporate office in NYC.
In a statement on the cuts, CEO Steve Riggio said, . . .
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