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Hello Tanya,
I had so much fun with John at Squaw!!We met briefly at the SF Shewrites meet-up. I look forward to connecting with you soon.
Melina
Tanya Egan Gibson commented on the group 'Literary Fiction Writers'
I'm lucky to be in a long-time writing group with folks who all write in different genres. There are a few of us write literary fiction for adults, but we also have two YA writers, a nuclear-arms-potboiler writer who also writes travel articles…
Tanya Egan Gibson commented on the blog post 'In Honor of 10,000: Shout Out a Woman Who's Got Your Back!'
A shout-out to my dear friend, and amazing writer, Kim Culbertson, who I always trust and who always has my back!
Tanya Egan Gibson commented on the event 'San Francisco SW First Birthday Meetup'
It was wonderful meeting everyone on Tuesday! Can't wait to do it again.
San Francisco SW First Birthday Meetup at To be Determined
June 29, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm
When: Tuesday, June 29th at 5:30 p.m.Let's gather at the tables OUTSIDE BOOKPASSAGE AND PETE'S. We'll have cake to celebrate, and you can bring eats and drinks from all over the ferry building or even from home. I'll try to get there early to stake out some room for us, but I think we can just mingle and mix and say hello.We need:Cake - LynneCandle - LynneCamera - MegNametags - WendySmall plates - MichelleForks - MegNapkins - VictoriaIf you can, please volunteer for one of the above, and in any…See More
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Hi, Tanya. Yes! I remember you. Happy to be friends.
On Trying. And Fiction. And Fish
Lately, I've read too much fiction that seems to me like this: a story opens at a point where the characters have stopped trying/hoping to make their lives change. They think about this not trying/not hoping, wondering how and why they've stopped trying/hoping. Often, there is a moment where they almost try/hope--a climax. Almost. But in the denouement, they end up not-trying/not-hoping some more. (Many of these stories take place in settings that seem to me not-inherently-hopeless--present-day…See More
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Welcome Tanya to the Kids Lit group. Do pop in and say "allo" :-)
HooRoo
Svett
Tanya Egan Gibson at Virginia Festival of the Book at UVa Bookstore
March 18, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm
Speaking on "The Ways We Come of Age" panel along with Dylan Landis (Normal People Don't Live Like This), Alison Larkin (The English American: A Novel) and Alan DeNiro (Total Oblivion, More or Less).
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Thanks so much for voting for the trailer, Victoria, and for welcoming me to the mom/writer's group!
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Tanya,
Thanks for joining Mother Writer! I look forward to hearing more from you. I also want to let you know that I voted for your trailer a few weeks back after seeing it here on SW. Great work!
--Victoria
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- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- How To Buy a Love of Reading (May 2009 - Dutton)
- My writing is:
- Fiction
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Tuesday Night Writers
- My professional associations:
- California Writers Club; National Women's Book Association
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On Trying. And Fiction. And Fish
Posted on May 13, 2010 at 12:28am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Lately, I've read too much fiction that seems to me like this: a story opens at a point where the characters have stopped trying/hoping to make their lives change. They think about this not trying/not hoping, wondering how and why they've stopped trying/hoping. Often, there is a moment where they almost try/hope--a climax. Almost. But in the denouement, they end up not-trying/not-hoping some more. (Many of these stories take place in settings that seem to me… Continue
The Three P's of Conference Attendance (Or Why a Writer's Conference is Not a Reality TV Show)
Posted on July 20, 2009 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Ah, conference season! You walk in, pitch memorized, nametagged, and first five pages in hand, ready to...
...berate Very Famous Editor during a morning one-on-one for not recognizing your manifest talent?
...interrupt lunch conversation between your roommate and Very Famous Agent about their mutual adoration of labradoodles to "unobtrusively" slip in a plug for your novel?
...sidle up to Very Famous Author at an evening social event and let her know she needs… Continue
...berate Very Famous Editor during a morning one-on-one for not recognizing your manifest talent?
...interrupt lunch conversation between your roommate and Very Famous Agent about their mutual adoration of labradoodles to "unobtrusively" slip in a plug for your novel?
...sidle up to Very Famous Author at an evening social event and let her know she needs… Continue
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 11:07am on August 16, 2010,
Melina Selverston Scher said… - Hello Tanya,
I had so much fun with John at Squaw!!We met briefly at the SF Shewrites meet-up. I look forward to connecting with you soon.
Melina
- At 8:45pm on June 2, 2010,
Leslie Larson said… - Hi, Tanya. Yes! I remember you. Happy to be friends.
- At 6:18pm on January 20, 2010,
Svetlana Bykovec said… - Welcome Tanya to the Kids Lit group. Do pop in and say "allo" :-)
HooRoo
Svett
- At 8:18pm on August 25, 2009,
E Victoria Flynn said… - Tanya,
Thanks for joining Mother Writer! I look forward to hearing more from you. I also want to let you know that I voted for your trailer a few weeks back after seeing it here on SW. Great work!
--Victoria
- At 7:56am on July 21, 2009,
Kim Culbertson said…
- I'm really looking forward to your reading this weekend!
- At 9:53am on July 20, 2009,
Kamy Wicoff said… - So glad you like SW -- you're so welcome! It's a real joy for me to do this.
And congratulations on your trailer, and on doing it yourself. I really enjoyed it -- you should drop-in on the Marketing and Promotion group (if you haven't done so already) and share your experience with them!
- At 7:55pm on July 16, 2009,
Karen Propp said… - The trailer is terrific--laughed, loved & voted for it on the poll.
- At 10:50am on July 13, 2009,
Deborah Grabien said… - Heh. Maybe not. I want to be told a story, taken on a journey, and I have to be given a reason to give a damn about the characters. I loved "The Great Gatsby" because every character in that book echoed somewhere in me. I detested "Bel Canto" because the characters seemed to be in there for no reason except to get the author's idea for a story across. And if the author doesn't convince me that s/he doesn't care about the characters, I'm not going to care about them either.
(By the way, I adore "Kavalier & Klay". I don't consider Michael a postmodern writer - he's a storyteller who gives me the kind of people I care about following down the road.)
- At 2:52pm on July 9, 2009,
Elizabeth Beckwith said… - Hey Tanya!
Thank you for the compliment with regards to my cover and title. The book is a twisted take on a traditional parenting guide that is part memoir/part instructional spoof. It is going in the "humor" section, though I always joke that "I stand behind these methods!"
EB
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