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  • Sian - as someone who grew up in a home full of addiction and all the dysfunction that...mpanies it, I get that instinctive urge to label your feelings as "whiny brat" mode, but I think your points are...
  • Hi Emily, Don't be scared and keep writing. What you're seeing is a culmination of rel...lusive in retail book chains because they still operate in this Depression Era mode. Support your libraries in an...
  • Deborah, I've been thinking a lot about a writing buddy. Writing partners are very common in Hollywood, but for novelists not as much. In terms of the order of my process, no special order. Sometimes the sobbing comes before the chocolate, sometimes after. But...it always comes. LOL
  • Rebecca, you've captured the heart of this topic so beautifully. I'm on the other side of the equation. I'm a working mom, but was a stay-at-home (working at our famil...
  • Pamela: That's a great story about choosing to be authentic--despite "the cost" you feared you pay.  I think this waiting to be struck by lightening feeling is a commo...
  • Hi Joanell,  Oh, I get you. I just wanted to put in a word for close reading and slow writing! I'm happy to kill my darlings (or at least put them in a scrap file for...
  • Dear Mary Ellen, oh my goodness!!! Many, many thanks for your kind words and amazing review of Beautiful Affliction! Your wonderful description of my book brings tears...
  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. -- Alice Walker
  • Hi Andi! You should start writing the query now. Writing the query will help crystallize your book's hook / premise / mission as you go forward. But you should not sen...
  • Pamela, thanks for your comment!  I just checked out your web site (http://pamolson.org) -- very nice!  And what great blurbs!  This is a good example and inspiration...