Tag: writers
group name: booknookftl
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August 29, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
Hi
I'm new here and just accepted an invitation to join THe Book Nook, glad to be here! . Since I"m a book reviewer, I thought I'd tell you all . . . more
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July 22, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
Want to become a book reviewer? Bright Ideas by Bestselling Authors is offering free copies of upcoming books to members interested in writing book reviews!
Request a copy by sending a message . . . 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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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 03:26 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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July 14, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
So read last week that "frugal" is the new black, what brilliant timing for Practically Posh! I'm living in the Hamptons this summer hosting a show, and "coincidentally" friends . . . more
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October 09, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
Without a doubt I think the best authors are the ones from the South. They have such a gift for writing. Take Anne Rivers Siddons. I think I've read every book she's written. I won't say that . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
Some people have told me that they like my character, Liberty Lane, but doubt whether a young woman would have so much freedom to travel and make her own decisions in the nineteenth century. Although . . . more
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March 24, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
A few years ago, in one of those spells when writers have to find other means of paying for groceries and cat food, I took a job as a guide at a stately home owned by the National Trust in my home county . . . more
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July 14, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
This has now happened to me enough times that it's worthy of a write-up. Someone will ask me the innocent question, "What's your book about?" and, though I could wax poetic about it . . . 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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July 07, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
The point I am about to make is reiterated before me as the word "blogger" is underlined in red in my Microsoft Word document. Spell check has no idea what a blogger is, and, for a long time, . . . more
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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, . . . more
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May 28, 2008 11:13 AM EDT --
I was at a dinner party once when someone threw a question out to the group, "If you were stranded on a deserted island, would you rather be stuck with a man or a woman?"
My first response . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:57 AM EDT --
There are times and places where the sheer reality of history can grab you by the throat. It doesn't always happen when and where you might expect – not necessarily in the palaces or castles . . . more
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May 01, 2008 09:21 AM EDT --
Sometimes a book takes a long time. I'm not talking just about the research and writing, but about figuring out what the book is.
My book DREAM LUCKY started as something else, a music book . . . more
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