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  • The name that I use on here and around the Internet (at least with writing related stu...blog or on my writing, it's like an alter ego of sorts and I shift into writer mode.
  • What a great post, Dani. I appreciate your perspective—always—on social media and onli...on NPR last night about boredom, and how it brings the brain back to "default mode," a critical state of mind fo...
  • I'm saying yes to (and seeking out) opportunities to talk about my books the old-fashi...book club readers. I think I originally imagined my ebooks floating out to a modest number of computer savvy st...
  • Claire - The dog stare is usually followed by a soft paw tapping my leg, over and over and over.  It can get very challenging :D  She is looking at me right now!  The...
  • There is a new magazine, Scratch, that is exploring issues in the publishing industry. Your topic about going or not going with a Big 5 publisher might be a good fit for the magazine. (It is making its inaugural edition openly accessible but is intending to be a subscription-based online mag.)
  • Pam, I love your comment. Maybe teaching is different from a critique group. If I were to teach a class at our local writing support facility, and I had, say fourteen...
  • Great post, Emily. And I second all comments Valerie Brooks has made. I served as fiction editor for Mid-American Review for a few years -- and it turned out to be the...
  • I can't believe shewrites is already 6 years old! Congratulations! This community has impacted my writing life in so many ways and I've yet to piece it all together un...
  • Hi Shannon, I'm so glad you asked this and pointed it out as it is something that is certainly in a state of flux that we haven't addressed directly on the site. We ha...
  • Hi Carol, You have to blog more. Sad that I didn't know about you and your work sooner at Women's Media Center. I had no grandmother like but I am wasting no time comp...