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  • Thank you for your insight. As a currently unpublished author about to move into publishing mode on my first completed manuscr...
  • I’ve just read all the comments here with my hands shaking and my stomach churning the...held about my mother and my own origins since childhood. Hmm, yup, whiny brat mode achieved… but seriously, I th...
  • Kelly -- Thanks so much for this description of your journalistic-memoiristic mode.  All fascinating.  I think it...
  •  Signing on with She Writes Press recently put me the publication-panic mode.  I blogged about it at http://maryh...
  • Thanks so much for taking a look and for your positive feedback! I'd love to take a look at some of your favorite book trailers since I am always in click-through mode....open to the inspiration matrix....!
  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • having my soon-to-be-released book go through the editing process with my publisher was incredibly painful and humbling. yet I learned things I'd never---in my twenty...
  • Being a writer is amazing; there is always something new to learn. 2009 has been a year with a huge learning curve for many of us. Before August, I wasn't even sure ho...
  • Hi Alexandra, Dialogue can be tricky for memoir writers because, yes, we're not running around recording conversations, and yet, dialogue is such a compelling part of...
  • Hi Irene, Are you writing under the same name in both genres or under different names? You will find some authors who are purists and will insist that you cannot--and...