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  • Your thoughts about your friend Carolyn and her suicide are so moving.  While researching a biography of a wonderful singer and writer, Susannah McCorkle, I was plunge...
  • REad Naomi Wolf's great work "The Vagina: A Cultural HIstory." She does a clear examination of how women get wet when we are excited by our work, our art, our expressi...
  • Holy wow.. Not only did I do it (not breath) while reading this, I realized I most probably do it at work as well, hence I "sigh" alot.. an act of dragging in more much needed oxygen.. yikes.. Wake up call time.. thank you!!! <3
  • Hi Caitlyn, Looks like we have similar styles while in the midst of writing the first draft.  I always read the previous day's written pages at the beginning of the n...
  • Suzy, I'd want to find out what happens next if the starting line were "Clearly reading comprehension is not my strong suit." So many places you could go with that, fr...
  • Right now, I'm re-reading Winning the Sugar War because I'm back on the sugar wagon (which sounds like the opposite of what I mean, so I am watching my sugar intake...
  • Because there's nothing like a good story. We need them as much as we need food and oxygen. #whyiwrite
  • Self-publishing was the best thing I ever did. After two years of incredibly hard work touring and speaking and publicizing my first book, I ended up with a new agent...
  • I began writing fiction several years ago, out of a need to exorcise the demons that therapy had left unfazed.  I'd read a lot of noir growing up (we don't have to tel...
  • Chris didn't get me flowers on Valentines Day. He said I'd be in the hospital in a couple days anyway. We had waited nine years, years that took us from Manhattan to C...