June 2012
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“My relationship with writing today is neither glamorous nor exciting. We will...”
– Corinne Purtill in her piece on salon, “My book was a bad idea.”
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“Understand that everyone has 1,000 pages of bad fiction in him or her, and...”
– Jennifer Finney Boylan’s advice for you aspiring authors. Jennifer started her writing career as James Boylan, writing such bestselling novels as author of the novels The Constellations (1994), The Planets (1991), and Getting In (1998), and then became the first bestselling transgender author in...
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WatchPardon me, but my blog is going to be ALL OWEN ALL THE TIME for the next few weeks. Or at least until he craps all over himself and his kennel and I have to clean it up… again.
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“My brother died in the World Trade Center. I promised myself, if something like...”
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A man whom police are hailing as a hero in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a Seattle’s cafe braved gunfire to hurl barstools at the suspect. Identified by police only as “Lawrence,” the man says he didn’t hesitate to put his life in danger, emboldened by the memory of his brother ….
Lawrence’s... 