Standing barefoot on the front step of our B Street row house when I was fifteen, I watched the boys on my block play stickball and my toes froze and prickled as if I’d dipped them into a bucket of ice cubes. It was July.
>I loved The Wednesday Sisters and have had all my friends read it...it was the kind of book I went to bed with wishing I could meet those women. I look forward to your next book!
Thank you, Amy! Made my day. :-)
Welcome to She Writes Amy! So glad to have you here.
Check out Getting Started, an easy-to-use guide to, well, getting started.
Don’t forget to head over to the She Writes Blog and let us know what you think!
If you have any questions or…
Hi all, I've published in the New York Times online, The Chicago Tribune, The Tribune Online, Washington Post Online, Huffington Post, a few anthologies and about twenty regional parenting publications. I also have a monthly column at Imperfect…
There are a few books on writing I love, all mentioned in the comments. My best advice is to read not only writing books, but the genre in which you write -- and read it like crazy! See what you like and what and what you don't, learn from…
>I loved The Wednesday Sisters and have had all my friends read it...it was the kind of book I went to bed with wishing I could meet those women. I look forward to your next book!
Amy Sue, Just opened the door to the novelist group for you - welcome! You might introduce yourself by telling us what you’re working on in the “Show Me Your Novel and I’ll Show You Mine” discussion if you're not too uncomfortable talking about what you're working on. I’ll look forward to chatting with you!
Amy Sue, Adding my voice to the welcome. If you’re looking for a place to jump in, we’d love to have you join us in the Novelists – Struggling or Not group.
Hope you enjoy the site!
Meg Waite Clayton
Moderator, Publishing Industry News, and Novelist Groups
Author of the national bestseller, The Wednesday Sisters, and the forthcoming The Four Ms. Bradwells (Ballantine, March 2011)
Welcome to She Writes Amy! So glad to have you here.
Check out Getting Started, an easy-to-use guide to, well, getting started.
Don’t forget to head over to the She Writes Blog and let us know what you think!
If you have any questions or feedback as you explore and use the site, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Best,
-Kate
Managing Editor, She Writes Blog
Community Manager, She Writes
My father's death opened the closet of horrible memories and I began to write "ugly" as I called it then. I began to reach for some honesty in my writing as I went through three years of frequent flashbacks--not of HIM, but of another…
While I agree that we can get carried away and even use prompts and exercises as effective avoidance techniques to tell ourselves, well, we ARE writing something, I found two books and a couple of classes to be enormously helpful in getting me going…
26 minutes ago
How John Cusack and his boom box ruined Valentine's Day:
http://goo.gl/SgMfN