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  • I'm heading to BEA on Thursday. I'll be speaking on a panel on the main stage at 1:00pm and spending the rest of the day, trying to make friends with every book seller...
  • When I wrote my memoir, there was a lot of dialogue. A lot. My editor was amazing. I called her "the contraction queen." I learned so much...everything you're writing...
  • Evelyn, You know I was kidding when I wrote the Brad Pitt thing, but you're so right. If anyone needed a good 'substitute me' it'd be the Jolie-Pitt clan. Thanks for showing me just how brilliant I really am!! ha-ha.
  • Lori, congratulations on your new book! I will be rushing to Amazon to pre-order Substitute Me. Your post came at a valuable time for me. My first book (non-fiction) B...
  • ...dipping toe into discussion one more time... I don't want to go tit for tat on all of my detractors here, but whenever I feel I have been misunderstood, I take res...
  • Congratulations, Lori! You're now a 360 degree author (fiction and non fiction) I am forcing myself to wait til tonight to dive back into Substitute Me. Warning: Lori'...
  • Tayari,   You know I loved this post!  I just finished reading Lori Tharps book, Substitute Me.... the book I had to go search for in the African American Section.  Ug...
  • I live around the corner from a fantastic movie house... adorned with brilliant neon in every color of the spectrum. They only play old movies... from Hitchcock to Onc...
  • It was the same for me, Julie. I came to writing when my kids grew up. BTW: my mother discovered art - she started painting - after my father died; she was already 70....
  • Thank you for saying what I've been teaching in the classroom as a substitute teacher. This is something I always catch; it kind of glares at me like a neon sign.