Today’s review: Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Howard-Johnson, also author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t, which is next on my reading list, as well as many other books, provides great web content for writers here. The Frugal [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 27, 2009
Announcing. . .The Gold Baguette Award
So, I’ve decided I need some sort of award to give out when I stumble across something or someone meritorious I want to call to my readers’ attention. In keeping with the theme of the blog, I tried out the golden cafe au lait bowl award, the silver madelaine award, the golden croissant–but none [...]
January 27, 2009
A John Updike Story
A great American author died today. John Updike. And while I’m sure the web is abuzz with tributes, I feel I must add my own tidbit about the man, what made him a “great” man to me.
In the early 90’s, Updike came to read at George Mason University, when I was an MFA [...]
January 16, 2009
Knowing Pains Hitting the Today Show!
Great News! Remember the book, Knowing Pains, I told you about last fall, that published my essay, “The Imaginary Nursery,” among many others. Well we just found out it’s going to be featured in a segment on the TODAY SHOW on January 23 in the 9:00 hour.
This is so exciting. The book [...]
January 6, 2009
Another Shelter Mag Bites the Dust
After bidding farewell to Mary Englebreit’s Home Companion, I just received a postcard telling me I can kiss my Cottage Living goodbye too. You can read about the shuttering of this relatively successful shelter mag and the struggles of the rest of them here.
According to the postcard, the rest of my subscription is going [...]
January 5, 2009
Girls After Our Own Hearts
Making the rounds of the blogosphere; read it and sigh, “Those were the days.”
January 1, 2009
Wife/MotherWorker/Spy
I Wish I Could Read Like a Girl
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
FOR weeks now, I have been watching my children endure life in the
fishbowl of the holiday season. On hiatus from school, they swim
patient laps around one another in the cramped space [...]
January 4, 2009
Wordamour Goes to Oxford MS!
And has committed the cardinal sin of blogging, going for a few weeks without posting. To make up for it, here is a virtual tour of Faulkner’s stomping grounds, Oxford MS. A great place to visit!
The courthouse on the Square.
The infamous Square Books, one of the leading independent bookstores in the US, with a mouthwatering [...]
