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Girlfriends Book Club: The Best Christmas Gift Ever

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Sunday, December 18, 2011. The Best Christmas Gift Ever. Christmas tree hand-picked by Mom. 8221; Only my mother’s idea of “good” was a wee bit different from his. A half hour and two dozen trees later, my mother would nod and say, “This is it! Let the tree-trimming begin! Once the ornaments were up, it was tinsel time! We had our big family dinner on Christmas Eve (still do! The Herald Angels Sing” and sit in silent awe as the star vocalist belted out “Ave Maria” and “Oh, Holy Ni...I’d love to kno...

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Girlfriends Book Club: IT'S NOT EASY BEING A FUNNY GIRL

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014. IT'S NOT EASY BEING A FUNNY GIRL. Funny Girl Saralee Rosenberg. Who needs a laugh? Yet women like me who write funny novels are considered the Rodney Dangerfields of publishing. We get no respect. Actually, we’re likened more to the childrens’ photographers at Sears. Everyone loves our work but rare is the reader who considers it art. Why do you think that when J.K. Rowling wrote an adult thriller last year, she resurfaced using the man’s name, Robert Galbraith? It’s no joke.

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Girlfriends Book Club: GUEST GIRLFRIEND: Please Redeem Me by Debra Salonen

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. GUEST GIRLFRIEND: Please Redeem Me by Debra Salonen. So what happens when you have a character show up in the first book of your 4-part series who is so annoying and unlikeable reviewers call him "a complete and utter PITA"? Yes, I had to look it up, too. P I T A = pain in the arse.as my mother would have said.). Wellnaturally, you make him your next HERO, of course. In Cowgirl Come Home. At the time, Bailey had been impressed. Now, not so much. She'd met more than her share...

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Girlfriends Book Club: Remind Me to Stick to Writing by Jenny Gardiner

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Thursday, August 7, 2014. Remind Me to Stick to Writing by Jenny Gardiner. I have limited internet access right now so don't have time to post something on theme this time around so I'm posting a column from my newspaper column! I'm ashamed to admit the extent of my fine arts education (or at least that which imprinted in the haze of my brain) sprung from dubious sources. For painting, the board game Masterpiece. Creators, Parker Brothers! In the immortal words of boxer Roberto Durán, no mas! When I was ...

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Girlfriends Book Club: What every writer needs to know

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Monday, August 18, 2014. What every writer needs to know. Someone who actually knows what's going to happen next. Yes, one of those. You see, I have a dream. That dream includes writing a novel in sequential order with every little thing perfectly and neatly tied up the first time around. Sorry to say, my bubble or rather my dream has been busted. As they say in north Florida, it ain't gonna happen. Not for me anyway. And believe me I've tried. What's my current process? What do you need to know. Maria G...

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Jen's All About Books: May 2015

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Thursday, May 28, 2015. Release Blitz: Hypnotized by Georgia Le Carre. Author: Georgia Le Carre. Tour Host: DRC Promotions and Ingenious Indie Promotions. Unlocking her mind. Will unleash his darkest desires. Marlow Kane. And something else. The smells of his day? Lives in England, in an old 19th century romantic cottage surrounded by a magical garden filled with fruit and walnut trees. Https:/ www.facebook.com/georgia.lecarre. Https:/ www.goodreads.com/GeorgiaLeCarre. Labels: Georgia Le Carre. SALEM, MA...

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Girlfriends Book Club: The Lonely Manuscript Club by Brenda Janowitz

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Lonely Manuscript Club. OCTOBER, 2013: FABULOUS NEW UPDATE! THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB HAS BEEN SOLD TO JASON PINTER, FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER OF POLIS BOOKS! THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB WILL BE RELEASED BY POLIS BOOKS IN WINTER 2014. This cycle we're talking about books that never saw the light of day. Yes, we published novelists have drawers full of them- novels that never got finished, never got sold, never got read. THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB. Think that he ever would or could fire me.

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A Passion for Romance: May 2015

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A Passion for Romance. Expect the unexpected. A place for readers and writers to share their stories and love for Romance. Fall into reading.reviews. Tasty Tuesday and A Teaser. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Character Interview: 50 Acts of Kindness by Ellyn Oaksmith. Please welcome Kylie Harrow from – 50 Acts of Kindness by Ellyn Oaksmith. Hi Kylie. Welcome. First of all, I’m sorry you lost your job. Why don’t you describe what it felt like returning home to Cedar Falls. How is your mother doing? That’s a ...

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Girlfriends Book Club: Writing a Book Very, Very Quickly by April Henry

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Friday, July 22, 2011. Writing a Book Very, Very Quickly. Right now, the process of writing a book is killing me. Through an accident of fate, I’ve had only a few months to outline and write a 90,000-word book. To add to the challenge, the finished project has to be clean, needing no major editorial changes, so it can quickly move into copy editing and production. Begin work. Each day, I have had goals to meet, but those goals have taken different forms. Chapter goals. Now that I am so close to the f...

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Girlfriends Book Club: The Catalpa Tree

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Sunday, October 21, 2012. By Barbara Claypole White. Author of The Unfinished Garden. In the summer of 2005, I accidentally discovered the novel that changed my life as a writer. I wandered into an English W H Smith to check out the buy-two-books-get-one-free deal, and picked up a novel with these words on the cover: “A story about love, loss—and surviving them both.”. The novel was The Catalpa Tree. And the author was Irish writer, Denyse Devlin. Seven years later The Catalpa Tree. I reread the novel a ...