Archive for January, 2012

Meredith Maran: Starting

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Get Your Manuscripts Ready!

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Happy 150th, Edith Wharton!

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10 Words to Shape Your Writing Life By

Friday January 13th, 2012 in Meg's Posts | 3 Comments »

Does This Sound Familiar?

Sunday January 1st, 2012 in Quotes on Writing | 4 Comments »

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

1st BOOKS is hosted by

Meg Waite Clayton

bestselling author of
The Four Ms. Bradwells,
The Wednesday Sisters,
The Language of Light,
and the forthcoming
The Wednesday Daughters

A Few Favorite Guest Posts:

"Starting Over" by Alex George, author of A Good American

"The Not Quite Yes" by Julia Glass, 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

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

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Deborah Michel: A Book Deal after Two Decades May 9, 2012
Poem in Your Pocket Day April 26, 2012
Lynda Rutledge: The Time I Broke Up with Fiction April 25, 2012
Andrea Buchanan: Captivating Your Inner Night-Time Critic April 18, 2012

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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