I’m eager to read the new book A Jane Austen Education, by William Deresiewicz (see videos at the end of this post for more information), in part because my husband, who re-reads all of Austen’s novels every time he teaches them—and has read Pride and Prejudice roughly two dozen times—delivers a killer Jane Austen course. …
This morning I had finished my morning pages, replied to emails and blog comments and bookmarked new blog posts for later reading (I’m loving the Read It Later Firefox add-on), and sat down to do 30 minutes of motivational reading before plunging into my writing project. I opened Sage Cohen’s The Productive Writer to chapter …
Note: I’m excited to be able to give away a free copy of The Bird Sisters with a bookplate signed by Rebecca! Just leave a comment on this post before midnight, Friday, April 15th to enter. I’ll choose a name at random and announce the winner on April 16th. “On a particularly low morning…” This …
A quick post today to share a link to a video about Wisconsin author Ilsa J. Bick, who switched careers at midlife from psychologist to writer. The voyage was slow at first, but it took off when she won a Star Trek writing contest. Watch the news feature at Local Author Gets Rave Reviews. Learn …
My husband does! Or at least some of the best of them. 🙂 We just learned that both volumes of his long-term, many-years-in-the-making project of editing Samuel Richardson’s Pamela are now listed on the Cambridge University Press website: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded Pamela in Her Exalted Condition “Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most …