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  • Hi Peg: I really like this! You're a very good writer. I saw that you excel in providing critiques for book proposals. I am working on my book proposal for my memoir,...
  • Paulette: You are an inspiration! This is my 4th "nano," and I am so far behind, I stopped writing. But I'll pick it up again, after reading about your heroic effort....
  • Let's see, we can get philosophical here: Kant said we can never know the "thing in itself", a truism that reliably comes back to me at weird times. Opposing him is th...
  • In order to utilize a third-party book distributor, the author or publisher has to giv...nnel isn't going to be any use. The real problem with the traditional business model is that it's 80 years old an...
  • I'm finishing up Reviving Opheila by Mary Pipher - good read if you're worried about the world our teen girls are entering.... Harry Potter as a study of voice and act...
  • Excellent, practical advice. Crucial to read, study the market, know your readers, and write from the heart. That's a winning combination.  I appreciate the time you put to writing this and sharing the helpful links.
  • I girlified my college son's bedroom for my study area and love it. My desk is against a window with layers of mountains as its view. I can be such a happy hermit here. 
  • Wonderful! When have I read through every response to a post before...Never! This post...and also as noted here we need that to fulfill something in ourselves. We need models of women who have overcome,...
  • Great advice!  I, too, usually have an idea of whose feedback I trust the most.  Are they in my target reader group?  What kind of a writer are they?  When critiquing...
  • Jennifer, I discuss this in later posts, but I think you need to get your work as polished as possible before doing a workshop (and I generally do only week-long or we...