I'm delighted to be hosing Sandra Beasley on 1st Books today. The Boston Globe calls Sandra's memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, …
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Now All I Need is a Sand-Repellent Laptop
The summer I studied for the bar exam, I went to my bar review class in the morning and then drove over the hill with my books, set up a beach chair on the …
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How to Prettify Your Google+ URL
For anyone who, like me, is loving the new Google+ social networking, here's a way to get a pretty google+ url: Go to: http://gplus.to/ Enter the nickname you …
First Draft!
Just finished a first draft of my new novel, and am reminded of the Hemingway saying re same: "First drafts are s#!t." Well, except he had a version of hello in …
Meg Waite Clayton: A Paperback Eight Years after the Hardcover
My first novel, The Language of Light was the first thing I sat down to write in earnest, once I started writing as an adult. It was ten years in the making by …
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Profoundly Shaken
It's a close call to say which was the more delightful happening yesterday: getting to introduce Ann Patchett for her reading at Kepler's last night, or opening …
Feminine Tosh
I spent an inspiring and entirely too short weekend gathering with readers and other writers at Printer's Row Book Festival in Chicago last weekend. If you've …
Just the Bookstore, Glen Ellyn, IL
I spent a few days in Chicago last week for the Chicago Tribune Litfest, and had a chance to return to Just the Bookstore again. I first heard about this …
Treasures of the Mind
Like everyone else lately, I've been glued to the news - the Arab Spring, the tornados, the arrest of Mr. Strauss-Kahn and Weinergate - and sometimes wondering …
A Gaggle of Writers at the End of the World
If today really is the end of the world, the great news for me is I'll go out in style: celebrating books! And if it comes at 6 p.m., then my last supper will …
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