Tag: The House
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Last Edits, My Personal Best, and Being Present…
The past two weeks have been a blur. I’m in the last stages of editing my novel, The House, that is due out later this year, and times have been quite interesting. It’s funny what happens when you reach a point of having to let go of a book and “put it out there” so…
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Publishing Contracts, Motherhood, Dreams, Hopes and Wishes…
I’ve been busy these last few weeks refining and making last changes to the document files for interior and book cover of my novel, “The House”. It’s been an interesting experience bringing this piece of work, “The House” to fruition. My first book, a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident”, was…
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Persona, Compassion and Bravado…
I recently read an article on writing that suggested writers ask ourselves, “Why have I chosen to write this novel at this time in my life?” This novel at this time. An interesting question.
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Literary Agents on Barnes & Noble and the State of Publishing
I think if Barnes & Noble folds, or something like that, it might be so devastating that we can’t get around it. If Barnes & Noble were to fold, what would happen to all of us? I mean, there’s no way that publishing could really continue. We’ve put too many eggs in one basket. This…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…