Tag: writing
group name: fictionreaders
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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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May 28, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
I met Delaune Michel on Gather a little while ago. She's a published author and I learned about her books in the Fiction Readers group. One book, Aftermath of Dreaming , was already . . . 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 03:04 PM EDT --
Lately, I've been wrestling with the question of why I write. I've been fortunate enough to receive a bevy of emails from people who have read The Department of Lost and Found and . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
GOOD MAN HUNTING only took about ten days to write, but I played with ideas for writing it over the course of several years as different elements inspired me. Media such as current television shows and . . . more
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February 25, 2008 05:57 PM EST --
Marc Schultz wrote a blog about how the FBI came by to ask him questions after he was seen reading "questionable material" in a coffee shop. The comments that follow the article . . . 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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February 19, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
A prominent Dallas attorney recently said to me, "You know, you wouldn't have even talked to me in high school." I had two reactions to his comment. First, I thought he . . . 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 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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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 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 10:43 AM EDT --
Before I was published, I got a lot of questions about why I was writing romance. "Don't you want to write a real book?" they'd say. Or, "Once you break in, you'll write something . . . more
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April 22, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
One of my favorite parts about writing The Department of Lost and Found was writing about how Natalie, my protagonist, tracks down the five former loves of her life to determine what went wrong and what . . . more
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February 11, 2008 05:27 PM EST --
One of the reasons I wrote the novel, GOOD MAN HUNTING, was because I wanted to illustrate the extreme measures society is willing to take when it comes to pursuing the opposite sex. Reality television . . . more
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April 29, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
Every once in a while – at a book reading or via email – I'll have a reader ask me, "What's the message that you hope to convey from this book?," and as silly as it seems, . . . more
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