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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...
  • I totally choked on my coffee reading this. Thank you thank you thank you. May I add the following two of my own, please? And don't start me on having to correct peopl...
  • I would definitely have called in had I known about the conversation .... but then, I am a black woman writer and, like my sisters-in-pens, not the least surprised. If a book gets published but no one reads it, does it make a sound? But thanks for leading the charge. Kim McLarin www.kimmclarin.com
  • Florinda, Thanks for your concise and thorough review of the so-called Franzen Feud. I am with you in every respect. As a reader I gravitate to fiction that mirrors th...
  • This is a wonderful start to a conversation that is long past due.  I wonder what else we are keeping silent about, and what that silence costs us.  Who among us will...
  • Michelle, this has been fun. Meh, you get the rejection and like any other rejection the sting lessens with time, until it doesn't matter. If one wants to write, one w...
  • I wonder if art dealers and artists have much the same conversation? Bands and labels? Sculptors and...? I've been fortunate to have grown up in the business world, wh...
  • Fabulous help, Elizabeth!  Thanks for taking the time.  What an incredible opening chapter summary!  When can I buy your book? I notice you did your summary in 3rd per...
  • Elizabeth, you might want to read my first post, Distribution 101. I'm very clear on the difference between distributors and wholesalers, and part of why this conversa...
  • I was moved by a panel on this topic at the last (and my first) AWP Conference. It's flat-out silly that a book about women by men gets taken seriously when a book abo...