"Awesome! :) Thanks Gayle-- I love learning about life/writing from Prince (and your perspective)! :)"
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What a Prince Concert Taught Me About Writing
I saw Prince in concert for the first time this week. This was a huge deal for me. I have loved Prince since I was a teenager; his sexy, funky music was instrumental in helping me begin to connect with my own sexuality (as you can see in this essay I wrote for Nerve several years ago). Every time a Prince concert toured over the years, I was either too broke or busy to go. When I saw the announcement of a new tour…See More
gayle brandeis commented on the blog post 'My Son is Perfect: How to Write (Honestly) About Our Kids'
"I was lucky enough to attend this panel at AWP--it was so fabulous. Wonderful to be able to see your talk here now; thank you so much for posting it."
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"So wonderful to finally meet you in person, Kamy! Wish we had crossed paths, Brooke--next time. :) Thank you for all you both do. xoxo"
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"My first novel, The Book of Dead Birds, won the Bellwether Prize in 2002. I have a feeling that getting that call from Barbara Kingsolver will forever be the highlight of my writing life--she has always been a role model for me on how to seamlessly…"
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"Thank you so much, everyone, for all of your beautiful, passionate responses to my question. I am profoundly moved by your voices. You can find the list of winners of the giveaway (and a coupon code for my ebook) here but please continue…"
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"So many things,but Books, the smell of them-old ones, new ones, doesn't matter! Also being in a Library, especially a great one, surrounded by the great works, classics and archival materials.. Wondering how one could ever even touch the tip of…"
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Electrifying Winners!
What electrifies me? You! I have been utterly, deeply inspired and moved by the response to my book giveaway. Thank you, everyone, for sharing your passions, for sharing what makes you tick as writers and women, for giving me windows into your lives, into your fiery, electric hearts. I so loved reading about how you are inspired by truth, by connection, by food, by the body, by nature, by music, by…See More
Collene Anderson commented on the blog post 'What Electrifies You? Tell us and win!'
"A mantra that begins with "I don't know..." leads me to treat my days as an explorer of knowledge. The impact of a clear mind that erases my ego and lets life soak in through my pores is electric.
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- Who I am:
- I am the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications), and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage (Ballantine) and Delta Girls (Ballantine), along with my first novel for young readers, My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt). I released The Book of Live Wires, the sequel to The Book of Dead Birds, as an ebook in 2011.You can visit my website at www.gaylebrandeis.com or email me at gaylebrandeis at gmail.com. I am on the national staff of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and am a founding member of the Women Creating Peace Collective. I live in Southern CA and am mom to a son in college, a daughter in high school, and a toddler.
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- http://www.gaylebrandeis.com
http://gaylebrandeis.blogspot.com
http://mamaredux.blogspot.com
@gaylebrandeis
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel (HarperCollins)
Self Storage: A Novel (Ballantine)
Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne)
My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt for Young Readers)
Delta Girls (Ballantine)
The Book of Live Wires (ebook)
- My writing is:
- Fiction
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- yes
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I offer freelance editing/consulting and teach writing workshops.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- yes
- My professional associations:
- PEN Center USA
Afghan Women's Writing Project
- I found out about She Writes from:
- a number of writer friends
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What a Prince Concert Taught Me About Writing
Posted on May 9, 2013 at 12:00pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
I saw Prince in concert for the first time this week. This was a huge deal for me. I have loved Prince since I was a teenager; his sexy, funky music was instrumental in helping me begin to connect with my own sexuality (as you can see in this essay I wrote for Nerve several years ago). Every time a Prince concert toured over the years, I was either too broke or busy to go. When I saw the announcement of a new…
Continue Electrifying Winners!
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:29pm 2 Comments 4 Likes
What electrifies me? You! I have been utterly, deeply inspired and moved by the response to my book giveaway. Thank you, everyone, for sharing your passions, for sharing what makes you tick as writers and women, for giving me windows into your lives, into your fiery, electric hearts. I so loved reading about how you are inspired by truth, by connection, by food, by the body, by nature, by…
What Electrifies You? Tell us and win!
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:40am 78 Comments 10 Likes
Every once in a while, a student will come to my office, saying she doesn’t know what to write.
“What gets your heart pumping?” I’ll ask her. “What takes your breath away? What makes the hair on your arms stand up on end?”
And she’ll look up into the air until something dawns upon her, and then a smile (or pained expression) will spread across her face. Her brother’s…
Continue Knocking on Your Door (On Reframing Self-Promotion)
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:30pm 12 Comments 13 Likes
When I was 11 years old, I started a neighborhood newspaper (named, not so imaginatively, Neighborhood News). It was my first foray into self-publishing, if you don’t count the “novel” I wrote when I was eight. That 20 page homage to The Secret Garden (named, not so imaginatively, The Secret World) ended up in my school library, but that was because my teacher had the pages spiral bound within a laminated orange construction paper cover--I wasn’t involved in the publishing part. …
Continue Writing Into (and Out of) the Void
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 10:32am 5 Comments 3 Likes
Well, I did it. I finished my NaNoWriMo novel on November 28--50,049 words that add up to a very rough draft of my YA novel, Seed Bombs. It was such a relief to reach the finish line--it reminded me that I am indeed a writer (something that should have been a given in my mind, but after writing so little the last couple of years, part of me couldn’t help but worry that those days were over.) It was also a relief to finish a couple of days early, because the 2nd anniversary of my mom’s death…
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- At 12:01pm on November 11, 2011,
Elaine Simone said… I just read your guest blog over at the Office of Letter's and Light, and then I saw your Roadmap post here! Thanks for sharing, and good luck on your current work.
- At 11:03am on June 23, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - Gayle! Delighted to see you here, and in the novelist group. Do jump in by adding a bit about your lovely books on the "Our Published Novels" thread.
And apologies for the slow add - I've been in Berlin and Prague, mercifully with only limited internet.
:-)
Meg
- At 11:01am on July 7, 2009,
Andi Buchanan said… - Gayle! So happy to see you here!
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