Yesterday, my mother asked what I was working on. “Oh, I finished copy editing that memoir and now I'm writing a marketing brochure,” I said.
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One of the most frequent questions I'm asked at book signings or when I teach writing classes is this one: “When do you write?” The
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As my friend Susan Straight and I cross the border from Maine into Canada, the customs agent follows the usual script: Where are you going, are you
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I first discovered that the Internet is a magical land when my DVR cut off a recording of American Idol before I found out who got kicked off. I raced
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What becomes shriekingly clear after you publish a book is this: Nobody cares as much as you do. I'd been writing for many years before I sold
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As a working mother, I have to pursue my literary pleasures with tunnel-vision passion and 007 stealth. I sneak reading time in the bathtub, at lunch,
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