Archive for August, 2009

A Room of My Own

Saturday August 29th, 2009 in Meg's Posts | 4 Comments »

Dan Chaon: Hungry Heart

Wednesday August 26th, 2009 in Author Stories | 3 Comments »

Bookstores Worth Browsing: Pudd’nhead Books

Monday August 17th, 2009 in Bookstores Worth Browsing | 2 Comments »

Firoozeh Dumas: Writing with a Kid Velcroed to my Hip

Wednesday August 12th, 2009 in Author Stories | 2 Comments »

Sheila Himmel: Hungry

Wednesday August 5th, 2009 in Author Stories | 3 Comments »

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Meg Waite Clayton

bestselling author of
The Four Ms. Bradwells
The Wednesday Sisters
and
Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light (all available from Random House/Ballantine)

A Few Favorite Guest Posts

"The Not Quite Yes" by Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and The Widower's Tale

"Call in Sick More Often" by Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

"When Your First Book is Not Your First" by Eleanor Brown, author of Weird Sisters

and

"The 136-Rejection Overnight Success" by Brenda Rickman Vantrease, author of The Illuminator and The Heretic's Wife

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About 1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started

If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer takes hard work, persistence, and a bit of luck.

1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started