"Thanks Caryn. Really good information. I'm finishing my first memoir - Divine Amnesiac: Love, Cancer, and Killing the Crazies and I'm enjoying finding other memoirists. I cannot wait to read your book and I really appreciate all the…"
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"Thanks so much, Pamela, Carol and Katharina. I think sometimes it makes sense to ask permission and sometimes to say, "Let me know if there's anything you can't live with, and then we can talk together about how to navigate this…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Writing About Real People: The Ethics of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly'
"Thanks for this, an excellent post. I know I tend to try to find and write about the best in people -- even those who are your enemies. It's not just because it feels queasy to write bad things about people (a "gut instinct" that…"
Laura Brennan commented on the blog post 'Armchair Book Tours: Getting Yourself Out There Without Leaving Home'
"Lucinda, what fun! I am so new to Twitter... I've just followed you and I'll try to join in on Thursday am - a bit late, but I'll be there."
Lucinda Cross commented on the blog post 'Armchair Book Tours: Getting Yourself Out There Without Leaving Home'
"FYI: I decided to do a Twitter Party, maybe this can be beneficial to some of you as well to include in your book marketing. Here is a link to mine ad you can join in to see how it…"
Laura Brennan commented on the blog post 'Armchair Book Tours: Getting Yourself Out There Without Leaving Home'
"This is such wonderful, practical advice! It can also be fun to make videos that spin off from your topic somehow, or ones where you are being interviewed by someone else. And I had no idea that blog tours were purchased and arranged - I…"
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"I love the book party idea! As a new indie I've been searching for the right events for me. Since my book probably won't be carried at bookstores, I doubt that those venues would be the right ones for my needs.
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Katharina Chase commented on the blog post 'Writing About Real People: The Ethics of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly'
"This is a great article! I struggle with this all the time, how to tell the truth in the kindest way. After all, everyone has their own truth. This is perhaps something more immediate for bloggers. I've written about it quite a few times,…"
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"Thanks so much for commenting, Beth, Jolie, Catherine, Julie, Suzie and Melva. Marcia, if you scroll down, you'll see my reply to someone else about finding bookclubs (it's hard to see because of the amount of comments, but keep going, and…"
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg commented on the blog post 'When To Tour On Your Own Dime (And When To Stay Home With a Good Book)'
"Thanks for commenting, Janet and Melva. Jill, I don't have places per se, but one idea is to have people you know (relatives, friends, etc.) throw you a book party: they invite everyone they know, suggesting they support the literary arts by…"
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- Who I am:
- http://CarynMirriamGoldberg.com
http://CarynMirriamGoldberg.wordpress.com
http://BraveVoice.com
http://arts.ks.gov/
http://Goddard.edu
Note: I'm currently Poet Laureate of Kansas
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- 1. The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body (Ice Cube Press, 2009)
2. Landed (poetry, Mammoth Publications, 2009)
3. My Tree of Life: Writing and Living Through Serious Illness (Turning Point, 2009) -- editor and contributor
4. The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader (TLA Network, 2007) -- editor and contributor
5. A Circle of Women, A Circle of Words (Mammoth Publications, 2005) -- editor and contributor
6. Animals in the House (poetry, Woodley Press, 2004)
7. Reading the Body (chapbook of poetry, Mammoth Publications, 2004)
8. Lot's Wife (poetry, Woodley Press, 2000)
9. Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life (Free Spirit Press, 2000)
10. Sandra Cisneros: Writer and Activist (Enslow Press, 1998)
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- http://WorldsofChange.blogspot.com
http://CarynMirriamGoldberg.wordpress.com
http://TLANetwork.org
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Workshops on writing and singing through http://BraveVoice.com, and writing workshops (see http://CarynMirriamGoldberg.com)
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- http://awordandapage.wordpress.com
- My professional associations:
- Transformative Language Arts Network (http://TLANetwork.org)
Goddard College (http://Goddard.edu)
- I found out about She Writes from:
- web search
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Writing About Real People: The Ethics of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 3:23pm 14 Comments 11 Likes
When my memoir, The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body, was in its just-about final, final, final draft, a friend who had recently read it told me to cut the part where I kind of diss a family member. As soon as she suggested this, a chord stuck through the core of me. I knew she was right, and I also knew how much I didn't ever want to use my writing to counter negative family dynamics in this way, and more to the point, how I wasn't…
ContinueWhen To Tour On Your Own Dime (And When To Stay Home With a Good Book)
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 5:26pm 6 Comments 4 Likes
We all know the oft-repeated bad news: the publishing world, which was always going to hell in a handbasket, is now rushing down the mountain on steroids. Translation: there's little opportunity or money to be had when it comes to getting big publishers to promote their writers, send them on tour, and pick up the tab. I remember a friend of mine, who has written nine bestsellers, telling me that in the good old days, she actually had a credit card from her publisher that she could use to…
ContinueArmchair Book Tours: Getting Yourself Out There Without Leaving Home
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:00pm 23 Comments 16 Likes
As I plan for my Adironack-chair-on-the-porch portion of promoting my novel, The Divorce Girl, I'm excited about the possibilities of being two places at once without leaving home. Yes, I will actually go many places and do readings, talks or signings, but it's likely I will reach more…
Opening Up Your Life: Fictionalizing Real Life
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:08am 2 Comments 8 Likes
When I began my first novel, The Divorce Girl, I knew I was both 
basing this on my own life and fictionalizing it to get closer to the emotional resonance of what I had lived as a teenager. Fiction is like that: through the backdoor of imagination,…
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- At 9:53am on February 4, 2011,
Julie Jeffs said… - Caryn,
Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.
I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.
Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Look forward to reading your posts.
Warm regards,
Julie Jeffs
Beginning a Life at 50
- At 9:40am on December 10, 2009,
Bernice L. McFadden said… - Dear Caryn:
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 will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.
If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering and Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
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