I recently posted on my Huffington Post blog a Twitterature Literary Match game -- and thought I'd share it here along with the answers. Just match the 2012 …
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Melanie Benjamin: The Novelist Formerly Known As…
I'm SO delighted to host Melanie Benjamin this week - not just because she's got a new book publishing this week, The Aviator's Wife, which I am already …
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What Book Editors Want in 2013
I stumbled across a piece on the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency's blog today about what book editors want to see in 2013. The answers run the gammut, including …
Isabel Allende on Passion, Writing, and Character
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters; they only make good former spouses." - Isabel Allende, from her 2007 TED Talk I listened to …
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Writing Resolutions for 2013
[T]he essential impulse in working is … to allow what haunts you to have a voice." - Colm Toibin I knew the moment I came across this quote today in a piece on …
Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes for Wonderful Reading in 2013!
A Little Robert Frost End-of-the-Word Poetry
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it …
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Good Grammar is Sexy
As I am deep in the details of the grammar rules, working on copy edits for The Wednesday Daughters, my thought for the day: (I would love to take credit for …
The Comma Lottery!
Want to enter the comma lottery? I just got exactly what I wanted for Christmas, which is very light copy edits on The Wednesday Daughters. They aren't all just …
Books=Gifts
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” - Henry Ward Beecher For the holidays, I'm hosting a holiday blog hop, with book bloggers doing quick posts …
