Dear Book Lover:
You may not know me or my work, but I am the national bestselling, award winning novelist of six critically acclaimed novels who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR…
Dear Ann,
Thank you for you your encouraging message. I do love books and am excited to read the works of She Writes authors. I look forward to seeing you when time swings back into your world.
Best Wishes,
Nicelle Davis
"Hone your business skills." I guess that's true. [sigh]
Some of us aren't wired that way. I just can't make myself find the submission process joyful, interesting, hobby-like, etc., even though rejections don't depress…
Like Marie and Diane, I never used to sim-sub. I still don't except in the case of manuscripts or mistakes in record-keeping on my part, which I shamefacedly admit is due to a serious lack of organization.
I'm prolific, but I hate the…
Oh, I missed the Oliver piece. I usually skip the travel section. Oliver is also a dedicated Whitman fan, by the way!
I thought Mark Doty might be the bard of Provincetown!!
I submitted a chapbook ms. to a contest. I didn't win; I wasn't even named a finalist by the judge. But the editor/publisher liked my book (it did get into the second-to-last cut) and published it anyway.
Two years later, same thing…
I've been reading Oliver since about 1977. It's fascinating to watch her work, style, and "poetic project" (?) evolve. Sometimes she gets a bit "stuck" in a theme or tone, and then she moves on. Critics sometimes harp…
Well, the reason I recommend these two as good examples of themed work is that they don't get monotonous. Smith's book takes on Katrina and its effects from a multitude of voices, including a dog and meteorologists, and the changing point…
Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
More Than Shelter (Spire Press)
The Minor Fauna (Finishing Line Press)
Small Things Rise & Go (FootHills Publishing)
Letters to the World (anthology, Red Hen Press)
Cadence of Hooves (anthology)
Gifts from Our Grandmothers: Lessons in Love (anthology)
Common Wealth (anthology Penn State Press)
I Have My Own Song for It (anthology, Univ. Akron Press)
Mother and Daughters: A poetry celebration
...and others
Media outlets that I currently write for:
Literary Journals
Academic/pedagogical Journals
Environmental/eco-critical Journals
Public Radio (commentary)
libretti
My writing is:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Theory
Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
occasionally, yes
Services I offer to other writers:
Proofreading, especially for writers with dyslexia
Editing
Reviewing--sometimes, and mostly poetry
I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
yes
My professional associations:
ASLE
Teachers & Writers Inc
ASCAP
AWP
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Thank you for you your encouraging message. I do love books and am excited to read the works of She Writes authors. I look forward to seeing you when time swings back into your world.
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…
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How John Cusack and his boom box ruined Valentine's Day:
http://goo.gl/SgMfN