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  • Mary E Tyler commented on Kamy Wicoff's article Salonniere
    WHOA! Major rights grab, Karny! Take your cue from Facebook and Yahoo Groups. Groups should be private unless specifically set as public. Profiles should be "friends...
  • Fascinating stuff, Sarah. And lots for me to think about when Elaine Showalter and I are due to speak on the thorny subject of women and self-promotion at the London s...
  • Last I heard, a couple of years ago at a dinner featuring Jeanette Walls who wrote that wonderful book The Glass Castle: Her mother was living in a cottage on Jeanette...
  • Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan is the woman-authored book that I've chosen for today's action. This is a book Ive h...
  • Kamy, One of the publications I freelance for always requires an outline.   However, I don't prepare the outline until I have organized and edited the story.  And my...
  • @Gwyn, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention here that SWP does have traditional distribution now, and a sales force. You're going to be undercut by Amazon no matter what...
  • I get you there, Melanie. Many years ago, when I was working on a different project, I wrote a fan letter to Pat Conroy and asked him how to write about family without...
  • I'm a firm believer in Blogging, and if it takes selling books to make believers of doubters, here's the proof I offer. My first book came out in December 2007. I did...
  • As sad as it sounds the fact that books -in such huge amounts- are being returned, I love Barnes&Noble as a reader. It has been my absolute favourite bookstore for...
  • Dear Deborah,  Just this morning I was at one of our Title 1 (free and reduced lunches) elementary schools co-teaching a before-school journaling class with a friend (...