Tomorrow I will continue my discussion of The Shallows, but today I want to take a moment to celebrate. First, a warm and hearty congratulations to fellow Great Potential Press authors Joy Lawson Davis and Teresa Smith Masiello for their recent Arizona Book Awards! Joy won in the Parenting/Family Issues category for Bright, Talented and …
From The Guardian: Writers at their Typewriters (a photo essay) From Stylist Magazine: The Best 100 Opening Lines from Books From Salon: Death to High School English “I’ve sat at my desk, a stack of their two-to-three-page papers before me, and felt overwhelmed to the point of physical paralysis by all the things they don’t …
On this sunny Mother’s Day I want to share a couple of blog posts about motherhood that touched me today. Casey (Raising Smart Girls) writes poignantly of seeing herself in her daughter: “She, like me, wears all her emotions on her sleeve. Great love, great disappointment, great anguish, great sadness, great anger, sometimes cycling through …
From The Lit Coach (Erin Reel): “When Passion and Purpose Align” (an inspiring look at why we write; also listen to Erin on “The Book Is Your Hook” radio program) Writers, you can’t wonder about your ability to write, your talent, whether or not your book will sell to an agent, to a publisher and …
For a few weeks now I’ve been collecting interesting blog posts and other sites as I find them to share on the weekends as Bookmarkable! links. However, there is so much good information and writing that comes our way each day through inboxes and feed readers and Twitter and Facebook that I am going to …