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  • Books that will stick with me ... I am sure I'll forget all the important ones if I do this in freewriting mode, but here goes: 1. Bitten (K...
  • Since the main character/narrator, Rosalind, in my book relies on stories from her pas...oed in my head as I wrote, its lovely Southern lilt lulling me into a creative mode just as surely as opera.  Bec...
  • I am originally from the Adirondacks, but I was a reporter in Syracuse was 11 years. My stepdaughter lives in Rochester, too. What a small, small world! I wonder wheth...
  • Re. the Chronicle, the article is called "Anne Boleyn: Victim or Vixen?" (I didn't choose the title!) and it came out quite a while ago (I extracted the piece from my...
  • Started by Emiliana Martín
    Being Latina is not for the faint of heart. It takes more than a coke and a smile to emerge from a Latina family. Latinas come in all shapes, sizes and colors. We are...
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  • Here is the beginning of my first novel,...no title yet.  Sort of memoir, everything is true....would love to read others!  Don’t all of us wives think about it from...
  • By Sue
    Good luck to you on the relationship/soulmate thing. I have pretty muchj decided that it exists only in the mind of women . It is something that we are taught. I have...
  • "There is a big party for my father, only he is not here and will not be coming at all." From "Birch Wood Doll" (unpublished, seeking agent etc.)   From "Unnatural," my novel in progress.
  • Thanks, Deb for all your good advice! Queries make me queasy. Yes, I've read through some of the shark's advice, most of it is "chew em' up and spit em' out" advice, b...
  • Well, I can't seem to work in the way the girls reconnect (it is part of the "baffling duplicity" thing but too complicated to add easily.) Also not sure how to add "o...