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  • Thank you for reminding us of Anne Sexton's brilliance.If I may just add:   There's no 'yet' as in your 'Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is typically remembered as a “confessi...
  • Sheri, to answer these questions here: First, e-book purchases completely eliminate this issue.  Not completely. Ebooks are also returnable. It's just less frequent an...
  • I agree he does not typically do serious ones, but maybe for the cause he would adapt this to the tenor he uses.  How does one do an online petition?
  • I've found that what I like about promotion is the personal interaction with readers and potential readers.  These are typically smaller events, like readings or short...
  • I actually love getting to the end - it's the middle that drives me nuts.  I typically write a book with the ending already somewhat formulated, but somewhere between that exciting opening and the exciting finale, there needs to be an actual story :)
  • Kelly,  I just realized that I didn't answer the second question you asked. People usually don't really own e-books; they get a license  for their use. There have bee...
  • I typically have to wait for publishers to okay a proposal (I write nonfiction health books), but it's still a waiting game. My advice (since I notice you said you hav...
  • Thanks for asking, Michelle! Yes, it is. I've been blogging on the craft of fiction for the past year, and I'm using my posts from the first half of 2009 as the basis...
  • Nora Gaskin Esthimer commented on her article A Writer's Bed
    I've been writing in bed a lot since I broke my ankle on December 25. Typically, I have my laptop, legal pad, a few pieces of mail, my MP3 player, telephones--land and...