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I'd like to take a moment to call your attention to the blog post labels on the left hand side of this page.  I try to categorize blog posts in ways that make sense so that readers can find the ones that interest them.  You'll recognize some of these labels in the little dictionary I've written here.…

I am posting a sneak peek at the gorgeous cover of my book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, which will be published by…

Pope Found Guilty: Gets 25 Years, no Parole (in English and Italiano)

http://sexyonthedarkside.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/self-injury-awareness-day/

http://http://www.simonesblog.net/self-publishing/self-publishing-q-a/item/how-do-i-go-about-finding-a-copyright-expertprofessional-to-help-with-the-copyrightcredits-page-of-my-self-published-bookwork?category_id=7

There’s a website…

            You've finally found a reading "pal," a person you trust who answers all the burning questions you have about your manuscript, a person who has also published a little or a lot, who takes the kind of consideration with your manuscript that it needs to be "polished." You've given her your…

Lucky me - last night I did a book signing event at Gatsby books in Long Beach, CA. On my way there, I began panicking thinking how no one would be there and the store owner would have gone to all this trouble for me to no avail. Happily about 10 people (and one cat) showed up, and politely allowed me to blabber on about my book. I sold several books (yay) but the money didn't give me the same satisfaction as the incredible validation of having people I'd never met before come out to support…

You always hear people talk about the spark. Following the spark.

I suppose you could call it inspiration, as well. Either way, the results are similar. But where does this elusive spark come from? Some people believe it can come from the instruments we use, like having the best laptops or best pen and pad. Others believe it can't be found, that it can only find…

Scribbled notes, bits of paper by the bed, all over the table, in handbags. Voice recordings taken in the rain when trying to soothe. Assorted computer files. Snatched moments never typed up, never crafted, edited, finished. 

Deadlines draw near and then fly past. Another competition submission chance gone. I'll try again next year, I say before remembering I said that last year and back then my distractions were different ones. 

Cabin fever, pacing, falling over playmats and…

“To laughter that can awake the dead.”

Afternoons seem unbearably long these days. As I proceeded to fill today’s with cajoling the living room bookshelf out of its antique torpor buried in a cosy quilt of dust, I chanced upon an equally antique, long-forgotten copy of The Second Sex . Mites have devoured the ‘w’ and both the ‘d’s, nibbling on a few ‘t’s and the ‘n’. The 1988 you beyond that faded scrawl on the first blank page…

Book Giveaway Feb 25 – March 7: To win one of the mystery books from The Adventures of John and Julia Evans series, leave a comment with your e-mail at http://lindaweaverclarke.blogspot.com

MYSTERY…ADVENTURE...ROMANCE...HUMOR...INTRIGUE!

“One thing I admire about Linda Weaver Clarke’s writing is that she desires to put the reader right there with her characters by describing the setting so well that…

It will always be ‘That Night’.

I've posted an excellent Bill Moyers interview with award-winning writer Louise Erdrich. Be sure to give yourself a half-hour to enjoy the interview.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/bill-moyers-interviews-louise-erdrich.html

Hi everyone. I'm up early, working on new novel. Haven't even had my coffee yet; characters are talking to me.

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Dear She Writers,

I can't believe that in about 3 weeks Oleander Girl will hit the bookstores!

Sometimes I'm elated when I think this; at other times I'm overwhelmed.

My brain is a constant flurry of trying to remember the million things that must be done before starting book tour--guest blog posts written, email interview questions answered, facebook entries made, friends in different cities informed of my events, flights and hotels booked, publicity questions handled,…

The wheels locking into place

Turbines spin

Cogs and wheels

Men

in…

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