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The Book That Was My Doorstop Has Become A Sacred Text

Jerry Whelan / February 10, 2015 / 4 comments

It’s true. For years I used it to keep the wind from slamming shut a particularly annoying door. Why this book? Because it was there: the first in a use-every-last-inch row of dusty volumes precariously atilt atop a chock-full bookcase,…

Friday Feast: Writer Happiness, Writer Envy, Deep Thoughts with Stephen King, and Girls in Fiction

Kelly J. Ford / February 6, 2015 / 1 comment

One of the first 45s* I bought was Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls.” I typically prefer the words “woman” or “broad” or “amazing organizational powerhouse,” but I can still get down with the G word on occasion, and invite you to…

An Interview with Alexi Zentner, Author of The Lobster Kings

Marc Foster / February 5, 2015 / 1 comment

Building on the critical success of his first novel, Touch, Alexi Zentner’s second release, The Lobster Kings, appeared last year to widespread acclaim. Set on fictional Loosewood Island near the border between Maine and Canada, The Lobster Kings follows first-person…

Birthing Babies, Birthing Books

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne / February 3, 2015 / 4 comments

Once again, I find myself gestating two babies: my book and an actual human child, currently two weeks out from D-Day. This happened two years ago too, smack in the middle of the Novel Incubator. I went to class one…

Friday Feast: Novel Checklist, Writing Tips, and Literary Food Blogs

Kelly J. Ford / January 30, 2015 / 2 comments

Sometimes, you have to eat at your desk while working or writing or reading blogs (except for that one potential employer who warned me that eating at your desk — lunch or snacks* — is not permitted). Gillian Anderson approves….

Writing Stories About Violence And Female Characters

Guest Contributor / January 29, 2015 / no comments

By Guest Contributor Amber Love. (This post originally appeared on Amber’s website, Amber Unmasked) Trigger warning: sexual assault discussion I’m not sure I can adequately describe how stressed I was reading and reviewing CANARY by Duane Swierczynski. I’m not going to…

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