by Cyndi | Oct 27, 2015 | advice on selling a book, advice on writing a book, beta readers, Your book club
Hanging out on Carmelita’s patio in Calumet on a summer evening I received the compliment that every writer yearns for. “I really liked your book,” Laura said. Me: Blank stare. Confusion morphing into pleasure. Wow. She liked my book. Laura: “Mary let me read it.” My...
by Cyndi | Dec 31, 2014 | advice on selling a book, beta readers, book review, novel research, writing, zines
Menopause! There. I said it. Period (as in end of.) I’m not the only one turning up the volume on a forthright discussion. Lower East Side Librarian Jenna Freedman and her frank, funny and factual band of collaborators, including co-editor Kate Haas, are spurring a...
by Cyndi | Sep 28, 2013 | books, novels, writers, writing
“I got a rejection the other day,” Corey LaBissoniere tells me, and the three of us – Corey, his mom Tammy and I – snicker. We are sitting in the Portage Lake District Library community room on the Houghton, Michigan waterfront basking in a substantial audience...
by Cyndi | Feb 20, 2013 | books, novels, writers
“Toot Toot!” That’s my own horn sounding in the aftermath of the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest’s Second Round Selections earlier this month. Here’s the pitch that moved my novel “Loop Dee Doo,” newly retitled “More Than You Think You...
by Cyndi | May 30, 2012 | Writing, editing, reading
Splash! Here I go, launched into the blogosphere, full speed ahead, making waves along the way. The nautical allusions are fitting for this writer and editor; the bulk of my most recent work centers around my adventures on the sailing vessel Chip Ahoy. Boating is also...
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