Tag: writers
group name: fictionreaders
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March 11, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
Babies and Books
Or, How I went from being a single, childless actress in Hollywood to a married, momma writer in NY in less than seven years.
08/15/2001
A former editor from Putnam hears . . . more
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . . more
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February 20, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
Hey y'all -
So, as a few of you know, I'm pretty new to Gather, but I am already loving how warm and welcoming the community is here. So I wanted y'all to meet another community that means . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:42 AM EST --
It started as a picture in my mind: a young woman wallking on a beach with the sun coming up. The beach was wide and long and she was the only person on it. Was she alone by her own choice or because . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:37 PM EDT --
All little girls love pink.
Right?
Wrong.
Despite the rosy-tinted title and cover of my latest book, I must confess that loving the color pink came relatively late to me. It took an unusually, . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
I write about my obsessions. I have a lot of them so I stay pretty busy. Little Pink Raincoat is a prime example of dual obsessions: men and fashion. To me, they're inextricably linked. The book . . . more
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April 15, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
When people hear of my book and its topic, the question I'm most commonly asked is about my own wedding experiences. This makes sense. The heroine in The Best Day of Someone Else's . . . more
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April 22, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
When I was young I was equally interested in writing and watching Perry Mason re-runs. A great day would be when I was sick and could stay home from school to watch a marathon of old black and white . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:57 AM EST --
I always wanted to write about my grandmother, a larger-than-life, Auntie Mame kind of figure who took me to Europe when I was 18. Though I had written essays and short stories about her, I needed a . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
Some people have told me that they like my character, Liberty Lane, but doubt whether a young woman would have so much freedom to travel and make her own decisions in the nineteenth century. Although . . . more
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March 24, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
A few years ago, in one of those spells when writers have to find other means of paying for groceries and cat food, I took a job as a guide at a stately home owned by the National Trust in my home county . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
For some reason-- granted strange and unknowable—I often latch onto some sort of symbol, talisman, or metaphor for my novel. For my first novel, Mail , it was anything postal: envelopes, . . . more
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May 28, 2008 11:13 AM EDT --
I was at a dinner party once when someone threw a question out to the group, "If you were stranded on a deserted island, would you rather be stuck with a man or a woman?"
My first response . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:57 AM EDT --
There are times and places where the sheer reality of history can grab you by the throat. It doesn't always happen when and where you might expect – not necessarily in the palaces or castles . . . more
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April 10, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
Skeptics chuckled when I announced I was leaving my job as a lawyer to write a novel. Having never taken a writing class, it was a little unhinged to think I could. Today, I'm often asked "how . . . more
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March 24, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
According to Woody Allen, comic writers sit at the children's table. We who write funny are second-class citizens in the city of great literature. For the most part, Nobels and Pulitzers go to the . . . more
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June 16, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
My education has never been rooted in academia, even when I was in school. I started modeling when I was fourteen (in the high-fashion world of Baton Rouge!), then at sixteen began teaching modeling to . . . more
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April 29, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
There are lots of questions I get as a writer. Sometimes people want to know about upcoming books or ask about why I did something with a certain character or they just wonder if I ever thought of taking . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
I was seven when I wrote my first short story. It was a thinly-veiled roman à clef about a little girl named Gracie Andrews who gets sick and has to go to the hospital. The stupid rules say parents . . . more
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March 10, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
For every writer, the dreaded question always comes: is your novel autobiographical? It's tough to answer. Some writers write about what they know. Others live in totally imaginary worlds. . . . more
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