I don't like complaining ... in public, anyway. And I don't like making excuses. Unfortunately, complaining and excuses seem to go hand-in-hand for me. The thing about complaining is that there is always someone worse off than me, which should give some perspective. And the thing about excuses is, nobody cares. We all have excuses. … Continue reading What’s the Worst That Can Happen When I Don’t Write? #MondayBlogs #amwriting
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A Few Things You Need to Know About Me #MondayBlogs
Hello, dear Reader, and Happy Monday (or whatever day upon which you are reading this). I thought it would be good to share a few things you should know about me. Now, if you've been following my blog for a long time, maybe these items won't surprise you. If you're new to my blog, these… Continue reading A Few Things You Need to Know About Me #MondayBlogs
Well Read? Or Not Well Read? #MondayBlogs
My husband and I have a lot of books. Mine are mostly fiction; his are nonfiction (environment, politics, history). I often think of my husband as better read than myself although he rarely reads fiction. On the other hand, my girlfriend and I can dominate a social gathering with our discussion of our favorite fiction… Continue reading Well Read? Or Not Well Read? #MondayBlogs
Book review Challenge Series – How I write a book review
Book review Challenge Series - How I write a book review. Click on this link to read an in-depth description of book reviewing by Rosie Amber!
Fear and the Will to Write
I do what I can to get work done. That doesn't mean any one thing, though. It just means I try everything. On a daily basis. (From "An Interview with David Anthony Durham" in The Writer's Chronicle, Volume 46, Number 4, February 2014) Gent confessed in a new preface he wrote for "North Dallas Forty"… Continue reading Fear and the Will to Write
That Part Where is live — check it out!
This is so cool! This new website, That Part Where, is a great place for authors to promote their books and for readers to find new books. Take the path through Kevin’s post to find out more 🙂
My feature at That Part Where is live now, and looks great! To reiterate, at this site you get to highlight a scene from your book — any scene at all — set it up with text that you write, and link to a purchase site and other places where you have a web presence. With any luck, someone new finds your book and buys it.
The good folks at That Part Where also do some promoting for you via their Facebook page and Google Ads.
All for $10.
Let me know what you think, and spread this around too! Reblog this post, tweet it, tell your ma, tell your pa, sing it from the nearest hilltop!
You get my heartfelt appreciation if you do.
The Importance of Being Interesting
God, I love this stuff!
In this guest post, Oliver Tearle, editor of the Interesting Literature blog, explains how and why literary research can be made interesting to a wider audience.
D. H. Lawrence was fond of climbing mulberry trees in the nude to stimulate his imagination. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group once convinced the Royal Navy they were a group of Abyssinian princes by donning fake beards and painting their faces black. George Eliot was the first person to make reference to ‘pop’ music. These are just three of the things I’ve discovered in the last year, since I embarked on a project to find the interesting side of literature. I did this partly because of that perennial question, or invitation, which preoccupies (and haunts) many a PhD student and academic researcher: “Tell us about your research…”
Increasingly in Higher Education, academics are being encouraged to communicate their research to a…
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One Story
I’ve been smitten with a wonderful source of short fiction: One Story. A non-profit literary magazine, One Story publishes one story at a time in a print format small enough to fit into a small bag or purse. The stories are between 3,000 and 8,000 words long, and so most can be read in one… Continue reading One Story
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