Juliette Fay’s Shelter Me was a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award “Book of the Year,” and her Deep Down True was short-listed for the Women’s Fiction award by the …
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On Reviews
I'm in that wonderful place for a writer: between reviews. But I came across a piece in Publisher's Weekly today listing 13 remarkably bad reviews for classic …
Litquake's Lit Camp Writers Conference
Just got an email about Lit Camp, the Bay Area's first juried writers' conference: Litcamp will feature representatives from the city's top literary players, …
E.B. White and Friedrich Nietzsche on Writing and Friends … and Please Share Links to Your Writer-Pals
I was just about to tweet the E.B. White quote “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" with thanks to some of my …
The Wordle.net Edit
Have you discovered Wordle.net yet? It's a site that will make a word cloud of your entire manuscript. I copied a late-process draft of The Wednesday Daughters …
Lake Forest Book Store, Lake Forest IL
Charming suburban Chicago bookstore with smart booksellers and great events When folks ask where I grew up ... well, it's complicated, so I either give the long …
I like to have a Martini…
I like to have a Martini, two at the very most; three, I'm under the table, four I'm under my host!" - Dorothy Parker Available at the The Library Shop at the …
Why Save Big Bird, Oscar, and the Rest of PBS?
You're still here? Hey, why don't you go read a book or something? - Oscar the Grouch …
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The Book Bin, Northbrook IL
My teenaged bookstore I have a sentimental attachment to The Book Bin in Northbrook, Illinois, which Janis and Lex Irvine opened when I was growing up there. It …
Debra Dean: Taking the Long Way
Debra Dean’s bestselling debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Novel, and an …
