A blast of good news today: my book NEXT STOP has been chosen for the Summer 2012 B&N Discover Great New Writers pgm. www.glenfinland.com
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Offer Prologue or Jump Right In?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Keetha DePriest Mosley Aug 25, 2010. 16 Replies 0 Likes
Hello--I'm new to the group and eager to follow more of your discussion threads, so I'll throw one out: What do you think of the use of Prologue to begin a memoir? Is it tiresome and old-fashioned,…Continue
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Going Rogue
Nov. 6, 2011, NYC Marathon Runner David Finland Had One Goal: To Finish Strong The way we see it, Sunday’s New York City Marathon couldn't have gone any better for runner #21871. As always with this young man, there were some surprises along the way. Early on, my 24-year old autistic son David suddenly threw it into high gear and "ditched" his Team Achilles guide at Mile 5, leaving behind his phone, ID, and Metro pass somewhere in Queens. Then family scouts spotted him…See More
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It's official! My pub date for Next Stop (AmyEinhornBooks/Putnam) is March 29, 2012. Check it out: http://www.glenfinland.com
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Thanks for your kind words, Emeline. If anyone wants to leave David a free GO! message to be flashed on the video screen along the race course, he's runner # 770145 at http://www.supportyourmarathoner.com/ He'll be wearing a…
Rs Emeline commented on the blog post 'MSTFNSH...Huh?'
This is amazing and truly inspiring. Congrats to your son for going out and making his dream come true. I've known many people who have competed in the MC Marathon, my cousin being one of them. It is a hard and demanding race. Your son is truly…
Glen Finland commented on the blog post 'A Ticket To Ride: How NEXT STOP Came To Be'
Thanks very much, Noreen. Now what's your story?
Debra Ann Gray-Elliott commented on the blog post 'MSTFNSH...Huh?'
Thank you for sharing. My grandson has SPD so we count all his little accomplishments as if they are gigantic. Best of luck to your son.
noreen sheikh commented on the blog post 'A Ticket To Ride: How NEXT STOP Came To Be'
touching
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Yes we are! Glad to be friends.
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Debra,
We're linked in lots of ways then! Good to meet you here and thanks for following me on Twitter.
G.
noreen sheikh commented on the blog post 'MSTFNSH...Huh?'
salam Glen Finland,
its a wonderful expression of yours
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- Who I am:
- www.glenfinland.com
autismspeaks.org
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Next Stop: A Memoir, AmyEinhornBooks/Putnam, forthcoming in April,2012
Cup of Comfort - memoir
East Coast Women's Anthology - fiction
Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living -book & play
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Washington Post Magazine, freelancer
Autism Speaks - blog posts
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Plays, Journalism, Blog Posts
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Not yet, but am interested in doing so.
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Close readings as a first reader for my peers.
Also, I teach composition at the university level - basics of generating writing and revision tools.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Yes. Our group of three has been together for six years now.
- My professional associations:
- American University
VCCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
The Writer's Center - Bethesda, MD
AWP, Vermont Postgraduate Writers Program
Southeastern Writers Association
- I found out about She Writes from:
- Lisa Solod
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Going Rogue
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:01pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Nov. 6, 2011, NYC Marathon Runner David Finland Had One Goal: To Finish Strong
The way we see it, Sunday’s New York City Marathon couldn't have gone any better for runner #21871.
As always with this young man, there were some surprises along the way. Early on, my 24-year old autistic son David suddenly threw it into high gear and "ditched" his Team Achilles guide at Mile 5, leaving behind his phone, ID, and Metro pass somewhere…
Continue MSTFNSH...Huh?
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 4:34pm 4 Comments 1 Like
MSTFNSH.
At first it was a mystery to me, but that’s what the vanity license plate reads in the middle of the eight bumper stickers on the back of my autistic adult son’s little Toyota. He’s 24 and he’s been driving himself to work for nearly two years now, pulling trash at county parks for minimum wage. There’ve been two tickets for going ten miles over the speed limit, but other than a broken rearview mirror and the unexplained yellow paint on the side of his gray car, no…
Continue After the Deluge
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:39pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Glad to hear my friends in Montpelier, VT, are mucking out their gardens and getting back their power. What a rare and wonderful community of writers. I wish them well in the Green State!
Whenever two or more writers are gathered...
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:58am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Wrapping up an intense week here at the PG Writers Conference in Montpelier, Vermont , with writers and poets who've come together from all over the U.S. It's been a productive week spent "pressing down hard" on nonfiction with author Richard McCann (Mother of Sorrows, The Ghost Letters).
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- At 8:53am on October 13, 2011,
Debra Ann Gray-Elliott said… - Yes we are! Glad to be friends.
- At 1:27pm on June 25, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - Adding my voice to the welcome, Glen. We’d love to have you join us in the Novelists – Struggling or Not group if you’re looking for a place to jump in.
Meg Waite Clayton
Novelist Group Moderator
www.megwaiteclayton.com
- At 9:25am on June 22, 2010,
Dr. Danna Walker said… - OMG, Glen. That's incredible. I can't make it to the meetup, unfortunately. But I hope to go to future ones. Many, many congrats on your book.
- At 4:45pm on June 21, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Hi there -- just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally (or at least virtually) to our first-ever She Writes Washington D.C. meetup, celebrating our first-anniversary! We are so grateful to the event's organizer, Ananda Leeke, for taking a risk and stepping up to host. I hope you will support her and bring yourself and other women who write (no need for them to be members) to the Washington D.C. gathering. At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Ananda here.
- At 7:02am on June 17, 2010,
Julie Jeffs said… - Hi Glen,
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 1:45pm on June 14, 2010,
Kathy H Porter said… - He literally "took my breath away" - wished I had found him a long time ago:
www.williamstillman.com . And, on a similar note, I can look forward to reading yours.
- At 10:35am on June 14, 2010,
Lea Beresford said… - Hi Glen! Glad to see that you've already joined a group and are attending the SheWrites first anniversary party in DC. I checked out your website-- very nice. Given the topic of your forthcoming book, I thought you might want to join the group Mother Writer! There's also a DC group and one for writers with similar pub dates. She Writes is all about fostering relationships between writers and sharing information-- you might get some good ideas from other women who are pubbing around the same time. I met Amy Einhorn, your publisher, five or six years ago and she is a lovely person. Sounds like your book has a good home. If you want to do some extra marketing and PR efforts on the book's behalf, you might want to take a look at She Writes webinar offerings or at She Writes Services (of which I am the manager) and consider working with one of our lovely freelancers to expand your platform andget the word out about your book. Whatever you decide to do on this website, I hope you find it to be a wonderful second home.
- At 6:29am on June 14, 2010,
Kathy H Porter said…
- Recently attended a seminar that featured William Stillman as the speaker. Have two of his books: Autism and the God Connection and The Autism Prophecies. Are you familiar with him?
- At 4:01pm on June 13, 2010,
Kate the Book Buff said… - Hi Glen! Welcome to She Writes. I just wanted to introduce myself, and my blog, The Book Buff: Book Reviews for Regular People. Check it out at http://www.thebookbuff.blogspot.com
The network can be a bit overwhelming at first, so if you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to ask!
Kate
- At 1:55pm on June 13, 2010,
Lea Beresford said…
- Welcome to SheWrites, Glen! I'm glad you're a part of this wonderful community of writers.
All my best,
Lea
Lea Beresford
Manager, She Writes Services
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How John Cusack ruined Valentine's Day for Me.
Jeannette LeSure commented on the blog post 'How to Write Memoir? 1. Forget Writing Prompts and Exercises 2. Stake Out Your Territory'
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…
How John Cusack and his boom box ruined Valentine's Day:
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Amy Lynn Nolan commented on the blog post 'How to Write Memoir? 1. Forget Writing Prompts and Exercises 2. Stake Out Your Territory'
This is so beautiful. Thank you for your generous spirit and for sharing it. I am slowly working on a memoir that has been "near finished" for two years. I'm struggling not to let writing be "the first to go," when life gets…
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