I had such fun hosting poets here on 1st Books for National Poetry Month that I've decided to continue the occasional Poetry Tuesday throughout the year. …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 10: The Dreaded Author Photo
To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm not skipping right over this author photo bit and moving on to The Four Ms. Bradwells showing up on Amazon. I. Hate. Photos. …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 9: Titles and DESCRIPTIONS and Author Photos – Oh My! (the "Description" part)
One funny thing about writing a book is how hard it is to reduce 300+ pages of prose to a one- or two-paragraph description. So the good news is that when your …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 8: TITLES and Descriptions and Author Photos – Oh My!
The working title for The Four Ms. Bradwells was "The Ms. Bradwells," which comes from an 1873 Supreme Court case, Bradwell v. Illinois, in which nine white …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 7: It's a … Well, Not a Book, Exactly, but an ARC. Or an ARE?
I've just arrive home from ten days in Berlin and Prague to find a box of advanced reader copies of The Four Ms. Bradwells on my doorstep! Woo hoo!!! For those …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 6: It Starts to Look Like a Book!!! (a.k.a. in Praise of Beth Pearson)
My tweet for May 15 reads "Page proofs for THE FOUR MS. BRADWELLS just arrived! Woo hooo! It looks like a book!" Which is all the work of others, whose praise …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 3: Why I LOVE my Editor
You may recall that when last you saw our fearless hero (me!), she'd had the bad judgment to send her editor a revised draft of The Four Ms. Bradwells on …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 2: Brainstorm, and Revise, Revise, Revise!
In Part 1 of this little series, "Manuscript Puberty," I shared the experience of sending a first draft of my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, to my editor, …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 1: Manuscript Puberty
I just got my first peek at the likely cover for my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, along with a description of what the book is about. The two together got …
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"The Ghost within Every Experience"
From Mark Strand's "On Becoming a Poet" in The Making of a Poem, an idea for what a poem may be, which I think also applies to fiction: "A poem may be ... the …
