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ournalist, novelist and short-story writer Pete Hamill doesn't often sit down for an interview, but he did recently (via the phone) with Mark Bialczak of the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard . Here are a few gems from that lengthy piece , which appeared...
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At this time every year, media outlets put forth their lists of the best books published from January on. Love 'em or hate 'em, these lists spur gift ideas and spark debate. Check out the year's best books according to Publisher's Weekly...
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Even as the holiday season is in full swing, I'm thinking ahead to the new year and what I want to accomplish. After all, as I receive the January issues of magazines I subscribe to, I'm reading the articles filled with inspirational tips for...
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A literary relative e-mailed me last week appalled at a spate of glaring grammatical mistakes she'd seen in the space of just a few days. She offered this roundup (prepare to gag): • "I was watching TV this weekend," she reported, "and...
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The holiday season is in full swing again, and if you're like me, you're still pondering the perfect gifts for some of the loved ones on your shopping list. Well, I'm here to help you with ideas for book-lovers and writers. Of course, if you're...
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A postscript to my last blog, about Christmas books and A Christmas Carol. Turns out that the manuscript for Dickens' Carol is housed at the Morgan Library and Museum —the former private library of financier John Pierpont Morgan—in New...
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As mentioned in last week's blog, while home sick in bed I had a chance to get immersed in a very interesting book that I think has a lot of value for writers: Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work from Discovery...
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To help promote her latest memoir, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood, contributing editor Melissa Hart schooled herself in the relatively new art of making a book trailer. On her blog , she says that she wanted her trailer to reflect the quirkiness of...
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Working on a computer with Internet access is fraught with temptation. How does one resist checking for e-mails, looking at the latest news, adding to your Amazon wish list at the first hint of writer's block? Some potentially helpful tools can be...
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'Tis the season when time is at a premium, and parties and shopping and eating and baking and family time and everything else gets compressed into weeks that are already jammed full. How can you find time to write? Maybe the best solution right now...
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Sick in bed yesterday with the creeping crud, I thought (foggily), "Hey, why not add to my day with Cormac McCarthy's bleak, post-apocalyptic novel The Road plus a book about how forensic science helps nail hideous criminals exhibiting the worst...
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With the new year right around the corner, this is the time when I reflect on what I accomplished in 2009 and what I hope to accomplish in 2010. The best thing I did for my writing this year was to take an online fiction class from Gotham Writers'...
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