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  • This was a wonderful post!  When I saw the title I think my mouth fell open in shock and a rush of outrage lol I fully take back the filthy look I gave you ;) I was a...
  • Thanks so much for sharing your expertise. I've been contemplating expanding several personal essays into a memoir and your list is a great help. Detachment is definit...
  • Grace - "A blog should augment or complement the book and allow readers a personal way to connect with the author, right?" Exactly!
  • Wonderful comments, everyone!  I'm writing from Vilnius, Lithuania, where I'm on a book tour!  My book, "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust," began when...
  • The earliest stories and poems I wrote were so exciting, I was about 11 years old. I hid what I wrote for a long time. Not because it felt naughty, or I thought the wr...
  • Nancy, great post. If people think we've reached a post-feminist era they have only to go online to discover the level of misogyny that can quickly become viral. Since...
  • Mark, Interestingly, I'm teaching a college course titled College To Careers and this is exactly the kind of philosophy in life I'm trying to teach them. The problem i...
  • As an author you are going to face these situations; it comes with the territory. The bigger question here is, "Will and can my story help inspire others?" And that qu...
  • The awesome box sounds great. Kids are like adults. Those personal recommendations are what we're likeliest to read.  Re graphic novels, American Born Chinese by Gene...
  • @Jackie, thanks for your advice on this. Another perspective and good to hear different ways of handling this. I do think some reviewers get personal, and I don't like...