Guest Author Interview with Linda Frank
Please join me in welcoming Linda Frank, a resident of San Francisco, avid reader and author of After the Auction.
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May 2012
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Nov 2011
Yes, traveling (a Midwest swing bookended by a Little Rock meeting and book talk and a St. Louis wedding and book talk, with stops in Louisville and beautiful Lexington, KY; Indianapolis; alma mater town Ann Arbor; Milwaukee homeland; Lincoln’s Springfield). Hardly the dizzying foreign destinations of the Today Show host’s annual odyssey this week.
But, more significantly, I’ve been AWOL from writing.
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Sep 2011
An agent’s message: another “Miss Representation”
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“A 60 year old female protagonist is an automatic problem with most mainstream publishers who prefer much younger characters.”
This is part of the email response I got yesterday morning from a New York literary agent, who shall remain nameless. I read it on my IPhone, while my husband and I were driving back to San Francisco from a quick weekend trip to Los Angeles. The thumbs-on-phone approach wouldn’t work for my reply, and I wouldn’t have time to write back on my computer until later in the evening. But I had plenty of time to think about it the challenge it presented. Those “fighting words” were a clarion call to action!
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Mar 2011
Posting, tweeting, blogging–uh, writing the next book?
March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Goodness, this is my first blog post of 2011!
Not that I haven’t thought about blogging. I’ve even felt guilty about not blogging. But I’ve posted on Facebook (even developed a new Facebook page–please LIKE me!) and tweeted on Twitter (FOLLOW me, please). Does that count? Even if I haven’t blogged since 2010? Writing the next book? Not so much.
Yes, I know that social networking is the marketing mode of choice. I know I have to do it. I’m doing it. I see results, actually, as when I tweet several times a day I gain a new follower or two. Facebook, well, I saw a small bounce in my book sales when I mentioned a “promotion” during National Read an Ebook Week, which was also on International Women’s Day (is there a National Week for Self-Published Authors? Or Baby Boomers on Facebook/Twitter?).
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Dec 2009
Guest Post by Lily Kovner: What’s my genre?
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
GENRE
Pronunciation: ˈzhän-rə, ˈzhäⁿ-; ˈzhäⁿr; ˈjän-rə
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, kind, gender — more at gender
Date: 1770
1 : a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
2 : kind, sort
3 : painting that depicts scenes or events from everyday life, usually realistically
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