In part because a character in my new novel is a poet - which I am not - I've been reading a lot of poetry lately. It's amazingly inspiring. And I just came …
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Breakfast for Breast Cancer!
Is there a more fun place to raise awareness for anything than a bookstore? One of the things I'm doing to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year is …
The Inner Book Geek in Me
Just before The Wednesday Sisters released in paperback, I was tagged on facebook with a "What kind of Book Geek Are You?" list. Although I rarely do the things …
Natural Writers
I'm reading Graham Swift's Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (if you've never read Swift, go get a copy of Last Orders this minute and do so!) and came …
The Single Best Piece of Advice I've Gotten as a Writer
Several years ago, I had the great (okay, and somewhat terrifying) experience of studying with Tim O'Brien at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He gave our …
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A Room of My Own
Thought I'd share this morning a post I did for Books on the Brain a few weeks ago: Virginia Woolf famously said in “A Room of One’s Own” that “a woman must …
George Eliot on Reaching for your Dreams
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot …
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The Secret to Getting Published
I get so many questions at events and in emails through my website about how to find an agent and get published that I thought I'd rerun a guest blog I did for …
Books Inc., Palo Alto CA
and other locations in the bay area--this is where I first saw my 1st novel! The newest bookstore on my block is actually one that's been around for ages. Books …
Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley CA
Literary & Garden Arts Mrs. Dalloway's is a store that did not exist when my first novel came out, but the first time I heard about this store--which draws …
