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Meg Waite Clayton

Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 7 other novels

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Meg Waite Clayton

February 5, 2012 By Meg Waite Clayton

How to Be an Indie Bookseller's Dream

I came across a great Wall Street Journal piece on reading in bookstores, thanks to writer pal Julia Flynn Siler. Some things you'd expect ("be nice to …

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February 1, 2012 By Meg Waite Clayton

Sarah Pinneo: Sometimes Things Don't Pan Out

Sarah Pinneo celebrates the publication of her debut novel, Julia's Child, this week, missing her self-imposed 40th birthday deadline by a few months. Jenny …

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September 7, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

Alma Katsu: From Writer to Spy to Writer

I'm delighted to be hosting Alma Katsu, whose debut novel, The Taker, is just out this week. Booklist calls it, "An imaginative, wholly original debut" and says …

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August 10, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

Maddie Dawson: A First Novel, Take Two

I met today's guest author, Maddie Dawson, on my favorite online writer's community, SheWrites.com. Her ... well, it's complicated, but it is Maddie's first …

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July 30, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

How to Build a Book Group Audience for Your Book

The biggest market of readers these days seems to be book groups. The question for most authors isn't whether they want to reach this market, but how. Some of …

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June 28, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

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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June 11, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

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 …

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June 10, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

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 …

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May 21, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

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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May 18, 2011 By Meg Waite Clayton

Tayari Jones: Writing in the Wilderness

I could not be more delighted: today I am hosting Tayari Jones! I first met Tayari when we were next door neighbors at the 2004 Sewanee Writers Conference, and …

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