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Self-publishing Points
Self-publishing, independent publishing, vanity press, traditional publishers, small press–these words fill the head like a bad smell. But I’m getting clear on these issues. And finally producing the books I want. (Go look at my bookshelf page.) In order to get here, this is what I did: Came to regard self-publishing as my…
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Roger, Roger Rosenblatt
A book about writing was long overdue in my reading queue, and there from the library shelf winked Rosenblatt’s Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing. The book follows one semester in a creative writing program where students study and create short fiction, essays and poems. More than…
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The Joy of Reading
It’s Sunday, the blog is pretty much established, the dogs are walked and I have a fresh, hard-cover copy of Frances Mayes’s A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller. I also have a bad case of jealousy. Oh, to be able to wander Europe for a year, and be paid…
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This New Blog
This is really an extension of the old blog, but welcome. I finally got to the point where I had to coordinate my on-line stuff and this is how I chose to do it. Well, actually, my skilled and generous daughter did it. For reasons neither one of us can explain the old posts…
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