Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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As I read Kathy Watson’s compelling memoir Last Morning at Nora’s Table, I found myself thinking about Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Both books hinge on a shocking death, but Watson’s story is, for me, the more powerful. Watson starts the memoir in the kitchen of her first restaurant, then reveals in well-structured…
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It’s a fine thing when friends and family say they like your book. That fine feeling gets better—excellent, let’s say—when a publisher says, “We think we can make money with your book.” Now the opinions on The Booker Rebellion have begun to arrive. Somebody hand me a cool drink and a fan. Snippets: There’s a…
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Now, in addition to my blog, I have an author website. For anyone thinking about building such a beast, I honor you and I also say, if you’ve got cash to throw at it, let somebody else build it. That’s about a month of my life I will never get back. That website (the link…
