How long should you stick to writing if you're not meeting with quick success? I've just read an interview with Cynthia Ozik in The Writer's Chronicle. The …
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Erma Bombeck on Snow-Blindness
"To say, 'Well, I write when I really get into it' is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snow-blindness if you have …
W.H. Auden on Work Habits
Get up very early and get going at once, in fact, work first and wash afterwards." - W.H. Auden …
Kepler's Books, Menlo Park CA
a great store for author events and reading advice I had the idea to blog about great bookstores as I was visiting some wonderful ones last summer on The …
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
As I was tidying the yard with my husband this afternoon, I was thinking about the wonderful Virginia Wolff quote - "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" …
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Jane Austen: Fourteen Years of Rejection
I just read a wonderful piece in The Literary Review that says, in the context of a review of a new book about Jane Austen: "In 1797, Thomas Cadell made one of …
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Do You Book Blog? or The Book Blog Roundup
Do you blog about books? Or have a favorite book blog you follow? As the paperback of The Wednesday Sisters prepares to launch, I've been thinking about what a …
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Chekhov on Failure and Persistence
"...you must at once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by …
On Slush Piles and Finding Agents
This photo of the decidedly undaunting St. Martin's slush pile (the bottom shelf), which Frances Dinklespiel posted about on her wonderful blog, Ghost Word, got …
A Self-Publishing Success Story or Three, with a Caveat
At the risk of encouraging folks to head for self-publishing, I found this story on the internet birth of Still Alice interesting. So I poked around a little, …
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