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Christina Baker Kline
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Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post '20 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Writing Life This Spring'
I love all of these -- some I haven't thought of, like reading poetry out loud and scribbling your favorite words.
(And yes - making lists!)
Kelli Swearingen left a comment for Christina Baker Kline
Welcome to Mother Writer,Christina! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself, browse our threads, or start one of your own. And again, welcome to Mother Writer. kelli s. rodin (admin)
Christina Baker Kline commented on the group 'Mother Writer!'
Hi everyone -- Join me and the fabulous Deborah Siegel at a day-long retreat for writing mamas in Brooklyn -- Saturday, May 21st. You can learn more and register at the SheWrites meet-up page:…
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'HuffPo and She Writes Ask: When Was the Moment You Knew (It Was Over)?'
Wow, Kamy, what a powerful note. I definitely want to hear you read!
She Writes Fridays left a comment for Christina Baker Kline
OMG what a GORGEOUS template you've used for your profile page! I haven't seen this one yet. You are brilliant! More from me (this is Deborah) on other stuff manana.
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'Don't Let The Holidays Hijack Your Writing'
Tayari, I love your posts -- so inspiring. Yes, this time of year is crazy. I find getting OUT of my domicile and away from all the to-do lists is crucial. Secret-agent tactics, yes!
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'This Would Be Funny if it Weren't So Infuriating'
Kamy, I applaud your rational fearlessness and good manners in the face of David LeShay's condesending tone, typos, and careless, faux-intimate lowercase form -- as if your valid objections and questions aren't worthy of the time and…
Christina Baker Kline left a comment for morgan
Morgan, did you get the webinar information? I don't know what happened -- the person to contact is Lea Beresford at SheWrites. Please let me know if you don't get a response. They were having some technical difficulties! You can also…
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." -- Picasso
Christina Baker Kline left a comment for Donna F. Orchard
Hi Donna -- we can do a Virtual Lunch, sure! We can set up a time for that -- just email me at bakerkline@aol.com. I don't look at work in advance when I do those, but am happy to look at the work then. You can send it in advance if you wish. I…
Donna F. Orchard left a comment for Christina Baker Kline
Christina,
I have my memoir Roughneck Daddy as an ebook and I'm editing the galley for the paperback. I would like to see what you think. Could I do one of the lunches for $100 after you have had a chance to look at it? It is very short, but I…
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'My Ten-Year Overnight Success'
I appreciate your note, Barbara. I just re-read this piece after, I guess, at least a year ... and wow, that was a long hard journey. I'm in the final few (I hope) months of writing the new novel I mentioned, and honestly -- in some ways it…
Barbara Fischkin commented on the blog post 'My Ten-Year Overnight Success'
I am more than a year behind reading this post but Christina I love it. It should be a Shewrites classic, if it isn't already.Ebb and flow are the stuff that make a writer's life. (Men, too!) It's not like other careers that follow…
Christina Baker Kline commented on the blog post 'Five No-Longer-Secret Steps to a Book Proposal that Sells'
Hi Miranda! Monique's blog is www.honeysmoke.com. It's really terrific -- I think you'll like it.
Profile Information
- Who I am:
- www.christinabakerkline.com
http://christinabakerkline.com/blog
http://twitter.com/bakerkline
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Bird in Hand (novel), Aug 09
About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror (essay collection), Spring 08
The Way Life Should Be (Novel), Aug 07
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- none
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Blog Posts
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- No
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I work occasionally as a freelance manuscript editor, script doctor, and book proposal writer.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Yes, several - in Montclair and New York City
- My professional associations:
- Fordham University -- I'm Writer-in-Residence
Christina Baker Kline's Blog
My Ten-Year Overnight Success
Posted on August 10, 2009 at 3:00pm 18 Comments 0 Likes
I suddenly look rather prolific. In the past two years I have published two novels – my new one, Bird in Hand, comes out this week – and co-edited an essay collection, and I’m under contract for another novel. “I don’t know how you do it!” a friend exclaimed the other day. “You make it look so easy.”
I agree that it looks easy now – three books in two years is pretty good. But it took a long eight years to get to this point, during which time my confidence was so shaken that I… Continue
I agree that it looks easy now – three books in two years is pretty good. But it took a long eight years to get to this point, during which time my confidence was so shaken that I… Continue
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- At 7:09pm on April 13, 2011,
Kelli Swearingen said… - Welcome to Mother Writer,Christina! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself, browse our threads, or start one of your own. And again, welcome to Mother Writer.
kelli s. rodin
(admin)
- At 10:13pm on December 9, 2010,
She Writes Fridays said… OMG what a GORGEOUS template you've used for your profile page! I haven't seen this one yet. You are brilliant! More from me (this is Deborah) on other stuff manana.
- At 2:19am on November 6, 2010,
Donna F. Orchard said… - Christina,
I have my memoir Roughneck Daddy as an ebook and I'm editing the galley for the paperback. I would like to see what you think. Could I do one of the lunches for $100 after you have had a chance to look at it? It is very short, but I wanted to stick with the child's voice which I felt was the most compelling. How do I sign up for your service and set up a time. If you want to find my book you can google Donna F. Orchard.
Donna
- At 7:29pm on July 6, 2010,
Deborah Siegel said… - Christina,
Thank you tremendously for your wonderful Five Questions this week! I loved what Bonnie asked you, and, as ever, am very inspired.
xoDebbie
- At 11:33am on July 1, 2010,
Marilyn Fried said… - Christina,
Congratulations on your book coming out! That's wonderful. I am following you on twitter now. I have met many writers on twitter and lots of other interesting people. Will you do a book tour with it?
- At 9:18am on December 10, 2009,
Bernice L. McFadden said… - Dear Christina:
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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- At 10:56am on November 5, 2009,
Zeba Khan said… - Congratulations on your book launch!
- At 7:03am on October 16, 2009,
Libby Schmais said… - Congratulations!! great cover. looking forward to reading it.
- At 4:50pm on August 13, 2009,
Jennifer Erin Eller said… - Mazel tov on the upcoming book.
- At 9:12am on July 29, 2009,
Jennifer Lauck said… - Hi Christina, thanks for the request and wow, what a great career you are building. I'll have to check out your books. Thanks again.
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