I just learned last night, as I was coming up for air from working on a new novel (just long enough to figure out where the dinner party I was going to was), …
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How Authors Can Get Bookscan Numbers
In case any authors out there don't already know it, you can get the Neilson Bookscan numbers for your books through Author Central on Amazon. I'll confess to …
A New Years Greeting-Quote
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't …
New Year's Blogolutions
The torn wrapping paper is thrown away, the cookies are eaten (and eaten and eaten and eaten!), and it's about time for the fresh page, starting over, the clean …
Happy Holidays from My Gang to You and Yours
From top left, clockwise: The gang at a wedding near Lake Tahoe; Nick in Madrigal costume, with his high school choir in Prague; Mac at Conwy Castle in Wales; …
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Literary Santa and One Lucky Chimney
I've spent most of my holiday shopping hours this year (as always) in bookstores. My giving bag includes old favorites (Andre Kertesz On Reading - with lovely …
Poetry Tuesday: an Eclipse, a Solstice, and a Post and Poem by Leslie Lytle
The confluence of winter solstice and lunar eclipse tonight, for me, calls out for poetry - and just in time, I recieved my annual solstice-poem card from my …
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A Long Scroll of Ink
Words of writing wisdom from one of the authors I most admire, Margaret Atwood: The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will …
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Winning a writing contest always seems like a long shot, but then publishing anything is a long shot, isn't it? And since my own writing life got a much-needed …
Happy Birthday, Jane Austen
December 16: Jane Austen's birthday. She would have been 235 today. And for all the imitations on bookstore shelves recently, none touches the original. She …
