WWW April Lit Salon -- Adair Lara
Don't miss the April 2 Literary Salon sponsored by the Wild Writing Women and the Monticello Inn off Union Square. I'll be hosting the event and the guest speaker is Adair Lara from the San Francisco…
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I'm exhausted. I need a laptop. I need an assistant. If a genie were to grant me one, but only one of these two things, I'm not sure which I'd pick. I could help more people with an assistant, but I could…
Read more →Paul Theroux is on tour
Paul Theroux is on tour for his latest book, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. Here is a review of Dark Star Safari by Maureen Gibbon from the StarTribune. Read on for the dates and…
Read more →War writers
All weekend I looked for postings from the "Where is Raed?" blog. He is finally back. I was relieved to see his words and tuned in. His account of the war is gripping. The saddness of what is going on is…
Read more →The weight of a letter
The book is about to be shipped from the printer. That means it'll be on bookstore shelves in about three weeks. While the caveat in the Travelers' Tales guidelines say they only contact writers if they…
Read more →Hemispheres Magazine
Hey Travel writers, Hemispheres, the inflight magazine for United Airlines, is a great outlet for your writing: 3 Perfect Days "The perfect travel planner with a fully searchable database to find exactly…
Read more →The Benefits of Name-building Part I
Lately I've been asked why I think name-building is important for writers, so I thought that I'd address it here. As always, this is just my opinion. There are a plethora of ways that a writer can build…
Read more →Larry Habegger
Yesterday morning I asked Larry if he'd write up a short summary of his evening with Pico Iyer and Don George for a guest post on Written Road. Knowing how busy he is I didn't expect him to oblige. But…
Read more →Props for Written Road
What goes around comes around. Last week I helped an author on my WorkforWriters listserve. It turned out she liked this blog and recommended it to her newsletter list as one of her "picks of the week."…
Read more →Good Press is Great Press!
How come that as of right now, Thursday night at 10:39pm, none of my friends with blogs have blogged about the great press they got in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor. Rolf, BootsnAll, World…
Read more →BEA 2003: Autographing for Sand In My Bra
I've been accepted into the BEA signing program. I had no idea that I had to pass some kind of rhetoric, but I guess I did. Turning in the paperwork on time seems like trial enough to me, but Krista, our…
Read more →So Many Reasons To Write
I've known I was a writer since those bad love poem days of jr. high school. Or even further back when I bought my own journal at 12 and started confiding to "Diary" that I had to wear a bra today, and…
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