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  • Dear Renate,   Have you talked to Barbara Will? I have ever since 2005, though not since the new book was published this year. She had a lot of contact with Bernard Fa...
  • Good points about setting -- and I'd go even further -- setting often informs the character and their actions.  In my young adult debut novel, LIE, (St. Martin's Press...
  • Networking is so important  for writers and especially hard for introverted writers. We've started up a Toastmasters club in our region called "Toastmasters in the Ar...
  • Victoria,  thanks for stopping by. I agree we've had great leaders in many eras who coped with health issues. As with all things though, times have changed; the potent...
  • You were right to react with surprise at those figures about amazon's market share ... they're just plain wrong. ("70% of all books are sold by Amazon; most of the res...
  • Kelly, obviously my comments (all and any of them) could well use some editing. A book with an impressive cover might, after a casual scan or some period of reading,...
  • Just saw this from an interview with Lorrie Moore in the Times, wish I'd seen it before I wrote this but maybe I will do a follow-on post... “How a novel finishes, is...
  • Great idea, Kamy, thanks! I would like to recommend a couple of older novels (but they're still among the best I've ever read): - Fiona Kidman (New Zealand), "The Book...
  • Thanks for sharing all the juicy details of your weekend, Brooke! The story of how you got there in the first place reminded me that I was introduced to Mark Nepo not...
  • That makes sense S.J., and I have been in that boat when I was editing a small literary magazine. I do think, however, that if you have $25K in prize money to give awa...