"I appreciate Jillian's honesty. And I'm not gonna lie: I'm totally jealous of her laser-like focus.
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"Love your honesty, Jillian. I look forward to reading your next novel, expecting the only way you might fail is not to finish this challenging story.
Your comment about lazy reading made me chuckle. In a review of my novel, Vagilantes, one reader…"
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I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE: A Talk with Jillian Medoff about Sex Scenes, the Writing Life and Failing Better
This piece was first published on Head Butler.I was intrigued by Jillian Medoff’s stunning new novel, I Couldn’t Love You More, from the very first scene: a princess-themed birthday party in suburbia with ten shrieking, tiara-wearing four-year-olds. Eliot Gordon, the birthday girl’s overextended working mom, learns from her own mother and sisters during the party’s cleanup that Finn Montgomery ---…See More
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This piece was first published on Head Butler.I was intrigued by Jillian Medoff’s stunning new novel, I Couldn’t Love You More, from the very first scene: a princess-themed birthday party in suburbia with ten shrieking, tiara-wearing four-year-olds. Eliot Gordon, the birthday girl’s overextended working mom, learns from her own mother and sisters during the party’s cleanup that Finn Montgomery ---…See More
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- Who I am:
- http://www.gretlclaggett.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- My writing has appeared in The Atlanta Review, BigCityLit, The Greensboro Review, Heliotrope, Lumina, Mangrove, New Millennium Writings, PITBULL Magazine, Rattapallax and The Same. Various poems have been anthologized in Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), Submerged: Tales from the Basin (StepSister Press, 2008) and In the Red (Helicon Nine Editions, 2010).
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Not at present.
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I teach an ongoing memoir class at the 92nd Street Y, and I've developed a personal growth/writing workshop called "Beyond Trauma and Drama: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Writing," which I'm launching this fall (2010) at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. I occasionally work one-on-one with writers, developing memoir pieces, poetry manuscripts, and coaching them on reading and performing their work out loud.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- ASH-X
- My professional associations:
- MFA in Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College (2004)
MFA in Creative Nonfiction, Goucher College (2008)
MFA in Acting, Western Illinois University (1988)
Gretl Claggett's Blog
CHARACTER—PLUS PERSEVERANCE—IS DESTINY: A Talk with Jillian Medoff about Craft and the Writing Life
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 7:00am 2 Comments 2 Likes
Jillian Medoff’s novel I Couldn’t Love You More was released in mid-May, had its fifth printing less than two months later and was just featured by Jennifer Weiner as a…
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Posted on July 13, 2012 at 6:00am 6 Comments 2 Likes
This piece was first published on Head Butler.
I was intrigued by Jillian Medoff’s stunning new novel, I Couldn’t Love You More, from the very first scene: a princess-themed birthday party in suburbia with ten shrieking,…
Continue Beatrice App: In-Depth Author Interviews to Kickstart the Writing Life and Make Dreams Real
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 5:33pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Ron Hogan loves interviewing authors ... and he’s an expert at it.
When he launched Beatrice.com back in 1995, he filled the site with in-depth Q&A pieces. For almost a decade, he published conversations with hundreds of fiction and nonfiction authors about the books they'd written, the craft of writing and living the writer's…
Continue Crossing Genres and Frontiers with Molly Peacock: Part II
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:39am 5 Comments 5 Likes
Gretl Claggett: Your latest book, The Paper Garden: An Artist {Begins Her Life’s Work} at 72, is a bold, risky, tour-de-force that defies categorization—released at a time when publishing is playing it safe. Tell us about the genesis of this book, your extensive research, and how you came to intertwine your personal story with the biography of your protagonist, Mrs. Delany, who lived…
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- At 12:57pm on November 15, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - >Love your site
Thank you! I'm actually just in the process of redoing it in prep for a new novel release in the spring - will keep all the content, but redesigning a little, and adding pages for the new book. Feels a little like shopping for a new wardrobe. :-)
It's the work of a very talented web designer, Ilsa Brink.
- At 10:38am on November 14, 2010, Meg Waite Clayton said…
- Gretl, Adding my voice to the welcome. If you’re looking for another place to jump in, consider joining us in the memoir group?
Hope you enjoy the site!
Meg Waite Clayton
Moderator, Publishing Industry News, and Novelist Group
Author of the national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters and the forthcoming The Four Ms. Bradwells (Ballantine, March 2011)
- At 5:09am on October 25, 2010,
Kate Hanselman said… - Welcome to She Writes Gretl! 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
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