Tag: writers
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August 18, 2008 08:08 PM EDT --
In a comment under one of my other posts about my second novel coming in January I mentioned that I was searching online for E. Annie Proulx in hopes of convincing her to read the ARC for Waltzing Cowboys . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:44 AM EST --
Recently, a convicted sex-offender won $10 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery. A few weeks before that, a deadbeat dad won another jackpot. It often seems that the people who win the lottery are the . . .
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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 . . .
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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, . . .
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January 04, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
I read some really great nonfiction this year, but my top 8 list is, nonetheless, heavily weighted toward fantasy novels. (But they're particularly good ones!) Please feel free to . . .
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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 . . .
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July 11, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
I celebrate the birthday of acclaimed children's literature author, E. B. White, today.
Happy Birthday Elwyn !!
Elwyn Brooks White was born in the great state of Maine on July 11, 1899. . . .
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July 07, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
Robert Anson Heinlein, a famous science fiction author, was born on July 7th, 1907.
Happy Birthday Bob!!
He would celebrate 101 if he were alive today.
Robert A. Heinlein is known as . . .
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September 15, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
What fun I had this morning being interviewed on BlogTalkRadio for the Texas radio show "Coffee with an Author." For all of you out there who missed and want to check out what a good job host . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . . .
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January 25, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
Day 92, Spring, 54 Second Age
Jamis,
Do not let them persuade you into believing what you know in your heart is false. You are the strongest, most intelligent . . .
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June 01, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus,
(Philippians 3:13). . . .
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February 17, 2008 11:15 PM EST --
I have all these ideas for storys in my head that never get written. I was in bed last night and this opening sentence formulated in my head.
I have no idea where this story is going or when . . .
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June 02, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
Many times, when those who we love are taken Home without much warning, we are left in a shell-shocked state. I recently lost a friend, and it is a very painful thing. Over the years, I have . . .
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February 01, 2008 03:00 PM EST --
I recently finished reading Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi Wolf, the author of the 1990s bestseller The Beauty Myth . This book was . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
Dark days are coming. I can feel the weakness in the earth, see the falling levels of rivers and oceans, hear the stillness that begins to settle over the whole of Divica. The entirety of my life has . . .
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October 25, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
I am too racy for my local newspaper! Ann Leonard, a freelance writer in my area, started to interview me for her "What We're Reading" column in the Tribune . . . but she didn't . . .
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April 22, 2008 04:24 PM EDT --
If you've stopped by my page here at gather or my website http://www.jessmichaels.com , you've probably noticed that I write under two different names. Names are a funny thing when you're . . .
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June 24, 2008 08:53 AM EDT --
Today is an amazing day for me for a variety of reasons. For one, it's a book release day and that is always an wild and wonderful thing because it's exciting and terrifying and unbelievable . . .
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