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Month: May 2014

5 Questions NOT to Ask a Writer

5 Questions NOT to Ask a Writer

Note: I’ll preface this post by saying I’m being purposefully snarky. I appreciate inquiries about my writing career from friends, relatives and acquaintances, including the following ones. But I won’t pretend that I haven’t ever been annoyed at being asked one of these questions, despite the good intentions its asker may have. That being said, here are 5 questions never to ask a writer – specifically one in the traditional publishing business who has yet to actually publish a book. 1….

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Coping with Rejection

Coping with Rejection

The other day I tweeted this clip from The Golden Girls of Blanche Devereaux perfectly summing up two of the most frustrating aspects of a writer's life: writer's block and rejection. It's the rejection phase that I've gotten fairly used to over the past couple of years. We writers face rejection from all over the place. Those of us in the traditional publishing realm often get our first (and second, third, fourth…) taste of it during the querying process as…

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A Literature-Music Mash-Up

A Literature-Music Mash-Up

Jill Sobule's "Dottie's Charms" a novel in song form. Kind of. Concept albums seem to be all the rage lately, and singer-songwriter Jill Sobule may have just crafted the most intriguing concept of them all. Several years ago, Sobule was given a vintage charm bracelet by a friend who found it on eBay. The bracelet contained a rather diverse and peculiar collection of pewter charms and one vague link to its original owner, apparently named Dorothy. Failed attempts to track down the mysterious…

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