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  • Thank you all! Pamela, a publisher did offer to publish I Don't Do Men, but I later r...book I needed to write- but not one I wanted to publish. I was still in victim mode when I wrote it! Mad at healt...
  • Thanks for this post, Tayari. I'm new to NaNo this year and I've been overwhelmed these past few wks trying to figure out my plot and develop my characters. I don't th...
  • Hey Nicky, that's no problem. Actually, I'd prefer a whiskey sour over a mint julep (don't care for mint much anyway) LOL
  • Dear Tina, I recently read an interview with Lan Samantha Chang, the new head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop (and the first woman to be in that position.) She said that...
  • Thank you Sandra for the shout out about the Goodreads Choice Awards and for your great distillation of the process. You make me more excited about the selection as a...
  • Caryn:   Thank you for you wise words that I take to heart.  As a emerging poet fortunate to be a member of a writing group your advice captures the essence of the why, how, what, where and when in opening up and closing many doors on our journey.  Wishing you the best.  Take care.
  • Sure enough, leave it to you two to take it to the next level.  Yes we hate editing.  As an author, I equate it to getting a root canal.  Everyone wants sparkling whit...
  • @Sue. Please do! I'm sure the SW community would love it. Thanks! @Kasey, I totally agree with you. And there are a lot of these really crazy confessional-style memoir...
  • Susan, what you say is somewhat true, but book tours from city to city work best for well-known authors who have already developed a large and loyal fan base. The go...
  • Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2013, by a Pulitzer Prize winner (and dear fr...