There is great stuff on writing this week! Be sure to check it out. Here is what you might have missed around She Writes this past week.
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Five Things I Wish I Had Known When I Published My First Book Added by Tayari Jones on April 26, 2011 |
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Daring Writers Guide #4: Four Reasons You Need a Writers Group Added by The Daring Writers Guide on April 28, 2011 |
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"Homage to My Hips" by Lucille Clifton Added by Alicia Suskin Ostriker on April 14, 2011 |
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Celebrating Womanhood: Poetry by Anne Sexton Added by Alicia Suskin Ostriker on April 14, 2011 |
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Sensual Pleasures You Don't Get from E-books Added by State of the Art on April 28, 2011 |
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REJUVENATE YOUR WRITING LIFE: A MINI-RETREAT FOR WRITING MAMAS WITH DEBORAH SIEGEL AND CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
May 21, 2011 from 9:30am to 3:30pm
A World of Women Writers Comes to New York
Jean Casella and Heather Hewett introduce some of the remarkable international women writers taking part in this week’s PEN World Voices Festival.
This is the week of the annual PEN… Continue
Added by Women in Translation on April 26, 2011 at 9:10am
On Writing
Five Things I Wish I Had Known When I Published My First Book
In twenty-eight days, my third novel, SILVER SPARROW will be officially released. It’s been almost ten years since my debut LEAVING ATLANTA and I have…
Added by Tayari Jones on April 27, 2011 at 12:30pm
Daring Writers Guide #4: Four Reasons You Need a Writers Group
It may be virtual. It may be your SheWrites connection. It may be a real-live flesh-and-blood meet-where-you-live writers group. Whatever form it takes, whether you read each other’s work, or coach each other through the finding-an-agent, dealing-with-your-editor, marketing-your-book end… Continue
Added by The Daring Writers Guide on April 28, 2011 at 11:28am
Five Questions for Debut Author Helen Phillips
HELEN PHILLIPS is the author of the short story collection And Yet They Were Happy. She is the recipient of a 2009-2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the 2009…
Added by Amelia Kahaney on May 2, 2011 at 8:30am
Five Questions for...Lauren Cerand
This week's winner of our …
Added by Five Questions on May 3, 2011 at 1:00pm
Umming and ermine – how to avoid getting in a right royal mess
If today’s little wedding in London is sending your head awhirl with thoughts of court and nobility, you might like to know how to get your royals right More here... http://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/umming-and-ermine-how-to-avoid-getting-in-a-right-royal-mess/
Added by Roz Morris on April 28, 2011 at 5:35pm
#editingchat 4/28/11
Today at noon Pacific Standard time on Twitter: #editingchat. Continue
Added by Victoria Mixon on April 28, 2011 at 10:24am
Free drawing for The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner's Manual
Over on her blog, Wordplay, K.M. Weiland is running a free ebook giveaway of my book, The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner's Manual.
If you'd like to win a free copy, …
Added by Victoria Mixon on April 29, 2011 at 10:30am
Alan Titchmarsh is the Prime Minister of Canada – using pictures to bring characters alive
It’s often a struggle to bring a character alive the first time they appear in a book. Here’s one of the things I do
I once made Alan Titchmarsh the Prime Minister of Canada.
I hope he’d be amused to know that, and let me make it clear that it was only in the privacy of my study and the pages I was writing.
Read more...
… Continue
Added by Roz Morris on May 1, 2011 at 11:58am
4 Advantages of Re-Reading
Think you don't have the time to re-read, even the best novels?
If you're a writer, you'd better think again. Those novels are your education.
Added by Victoria Mixon on May 2, 2011 at 1:55pm
Noteworthy Posts
DETERMINED MOM FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DIABETES
Every year, for the month of May, New York Times and USA Today Best-selling Author Brenda Novak runs an online auction for diabetes research. The auction takes a full year to plan and pull off, but it’s a labor of love—an effort to help all the people who, like her youngest son, suffer from diabetes. Her very first auction ran in 2005. It started small but has grown every year by leaps and bounds. Yearly totals to date: 2005 - $34,98 2006 - $62,705 2007 - $141,700 2008 - $252,300 2009 - $270,… Continue
Added by Margaret on May 3, 2011 at 3:55pm
BLURB is a VERB: Do Author Blogs Sell Books?
They do if you're Pioneer Woman. Superstar mom blogger Rhee Drummond shows us how it's done.
Ms. Drummond posted Twenty Steps to Writing a Children's Book on her ever popular blogsite The Pioneer Woman. Never shy of lengthy photo essays, Drummond shows in intricate detail the creation of her new picture book. Post gives the full blow-by-blow: there are photos of the real dog…
Added by Sarah Pinneo on May 3, 2011 at 3:04pm
Interviews, Reviews, Books Published and Give Aways
Coming This Fall... RIVER, the Anthology
It begins. Somewhere. An insignificant trickle of water that grows and changes, gathers a history, becomes the River, and finally reaches the sea, and vanishes into its vastness.
The River. Full of life. Full of mystery. Full of stories.
Rivers have always been very important to humankind. They've been explored. They've been navigated. They've been called gods. They've been blessed and cursed and venerated and used and enjoyed and exploited and polluted since the beginning of… Continue
Added by Alma Alexander on April 28, 2011 at 12:54pm
Ravencraft Romance Interviewed Kay Dee Royal
Danielle Ravencraft interviewed me. We talk about my book, Big Girls Don’t Cry Wolf today at:
http://dravencraft.blogspot.com/?zx=456d431caf8a42e9
Come visit Ravencraft Romance and leave a comment. Danielle and I would love to hear from you.
Kay Dee Royal
www.kaydeeroyal.blogspot.com
Added by Kay Dee Royal on May 1, 2011 at 5:01am — No Comments
Castle book review, interview & giveaway/mystery short story in new issue
New issue of Kings River Life is up and we have a review of the latest Richard Castle book, "Naked Heat" and an "interview" with Castle & a giveaway of the book http://kingsriverlife.com/04/30/naked-heat-by-richard-castle/
We also have a mystery short story called "Relentless Love" by Bill Butler http://kingsriverlife.com/04/30/relentless-love/
… Continue
Added by Lorie Ham on April 30, 2011 at 10:34am
DVD Giveaway and Review: Through Gates of Splendor
I've been re-reading Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot along with my junior high English class, and TGOS is also the May selection for Julia's Heroes of the Faith Book Club at Dark Glass Ponderings.
… Continue
Added by Renee Ann Smith on April 30, 2011 at 5:00am
Interview with Romance Author Celia Yeary and book giveaway
Book Give-Away May 2 - 9: To win an ebook, Making the Turn, leave a comment about this interview with your e-mail. International.
For all the non-golfers out there, "making the turn" means the player has finished the front nine and begins the back nine. This story begins with four women playing golf, and each chapter begins with a golf rule or quote. The story is about a thirty-nine-year-old socialite from Dallas who loses everything overnight due to the death of her philandering,… Continue
Added by Linda Weaver Clarke on May 2, 2011 at 6:55am
A Contest, Chat and Video Premiere
As I mentioned some time ago, this is an exciting year for me! A number of new novellas, an awesome romantic suspense from Carina press, the launch of the exciting new SIN HUNTER series, vampires at Christmas and so much more! Yes, more! So what can we do to celebrate such an awesome year?
For starters you can join me for a series of incredible video chats over the… Continue
Added by Caridad Pineiro on May 3, 2011 at 4:30am
Attention: Horse Lovers!
Book Give-Away April 25 – May 9: To win Bubba to the Rescue, an intriguing story about a horse, leave a comment at: http://lindaweaverclarke.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-with-author-jennifer-walker.html What starts out as a leisurely trail ride turns into a terrifying afternoon when Alex and Leslie see a plume of smoke rising in the trees. After saving the neighbor's horses from a horrible… Continue
Added by Linda Weaver Clarke on May 3, 2011 at 3:10pm
Mary, thanks for the comment.
Have a great finish to this special week!
Patricia - thank you. I did not know it was mental health week Canada. I'll keep that in mind as I browse through SW Community Blog in preparation for the next Around She Writes. You are correct, the topic is part of the fabric of many lives. So again, thank you for bring this to our attention.
Mental Health Week is the focus for this week in Canada.
Posted about it at my blog PM27's Blog;
also, shared with SheWrites group of Writers in Canada.
This topic involves so many of us, in our families, workplaces
and communities.
It is the focus of a lot of writing.
Is it a topic in any of your your writing of fiction or non-fiction?