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  • I find it extremely inappropriate that those of us who have presented alternative models to how the author could hav...
  • That's a great big territory, design of book covers, jackets, and what constitutes a "good" one, let alone a "special" one.  And keeping in mind two worlds which are s...
  • I think another frontier to scale is the hesitancy on the part of publishers to accept intense personal memoir (not a polite and slight narrative frame) integrated wit...
  • I remind myself that writing is a gift each day when I'm journaling in the morning.  Those 10 minutes I take each day for 'morning pages' is something I've come to val...
  • Given the sales of memoirs it's clear that readers love good stories that are well-written. The perception of memoir revulsion may spring in part from the current anti...
  • Thanks, Dawn. Do publishers such as Harper Collins have any thoughts around influencing things shelving or getting the books into the hands of nonblack readers? I get the impression COS will have a largely black audience.
  • Thanks for the additional facts here, Zetta. I always appreciate your insights! It would be really really easy for a big deep-discounted order, followed by a huge retu...
  • I read this book as a teenager and it made a big impression on me, too. I lived all over the world as a child/teen, and I never thought anyone was any less or more than anyone else -- and I thought everyone felt that way too! This book gave me hope, too.
  • I don't know about them during WWII but I'm slow reading Diana Souhami's 'Gertrude and Alice' and have just finished the period during WWI when they had a vehicle sent...
  • Laura Brennan commented on her article Talking for Writers
    @Bonnie: such a fun book!  I love the idea that it's a "coming of old-age story" - that seems to capture the tone perfectly.  My two cents: I think you need to tell us...