Tag: writing
group name: authorchats
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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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March 03, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
Hey y'all
So HarperCollins has started this cool thing of giving authors their own little - or not so little, actually! - websites on the HarperCollins site, and mine went live this week! So . . . more
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . . more
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September 11, 2008 06:10 PM EDT --
I am trying to find different websites that offer writing contests, fiction, non-fiction, etc. Does anyone know where I can look or know of any websites? I've been on google but have had . . . 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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June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Why don't we know much about history?
For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . . more
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June 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
In AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY , I tell six separate stories, each of which reveals an "untold tale" that your schoolbooks left out.
These six stories cover a broad range of our history, . . . more
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September 09, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
One of my friends from my "day job" bought my book about a week to ten days ago. Last time I actually talked to her, she was waiting for it to come into the mail.
I saw her for a brief . . . 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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April 22, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Not long after I started working on this book, doing research and interviews and gathering and organizing material, I was offered the opportunity to be on the show Celebrity Apprentice. I was concerned . . . more
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August 07, 2008 05:06 PM EDT --
“Oh, you're writing a book! What's it about?”
“Well, it's about.....pigeons.”
I've reenacted this exchange in countless cocktail party conversations since I began writing this . . . more
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July 29, 2008 10:17 AM EDT --
Journal Writing. If it's effectively done, it can help you access inner strengths, uncover unknown passions, face uncertain realities, and get to the center of self. In her new book Note to Self . . . 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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May 15, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
Before I wrote the book DREAM LUCKY about Count Basie, Benny Goodman, the Roosevelts, Amelia Earhart, et al, I wrote for children. I'm still writing for children, in fact.
I'd been a music . . . more
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