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This is a test. This is only a test. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. 14 Mar 2012 | 08:16 am
We interrupt this "I am going to do tons of work! Only work! No blogging for me until I get down to ____ manuscripts in my inbox!"* program to bring you and even more important message: The most impor...
I want to be Jess Rothenberg when I grow up. 7 Mar 2012 | 02:14 pm
Almost two weeks ago, I attended the release party for The Catastrophic History of You And Me--while, fittingly, having a pretty catastrophic day. Mysterious city noises had gotten me up at 3 am (and,...
Untitled 12 Jan 2012 | 06:08 am
From a query today: "Women with clean houses do not have finished books."-Joy Held I agree entirely.
The cutest no-knead bread you've ever seen. If you haven't tried it...well, now you'll want to. 30 Dec 2011 | 08:50 am
There are many versions of this recipe, but this is my favorite--practical, delicious, and easily accomplished by a four-year-old. Yes, you read that right.* I suppose you could call this episode of...
Soup for Writing 30 Dec 2011 | 07:02 am
I don't know about you, but I like snacks while I write. And I'm always cold, so I like soups in the winter (and spring, and fall, and in overly air conditioned summer, too). This one was a hit at my...
You Deserve Nothing 30 Dec 2011 | 06:48 am
Not you, dear query writer. Not you. I just finished Alexander Maksik's new novel, You Deserve Nothing, in almost one sitting--in a moral vacuum, I found it a delightful mix of highbrow sentences wit...
January, submitting your book, Agent Yes Mode, surviving air travel, and truffles 28 Dec 2011 | 07:52 am
Hello, readers and writers! I am back in the office (survived air travel! Foiled gravity yet again!) and have seen one question going around the internet quite a bit. This doesn't strike me as a safe...
What happens at the Vegas library... 25 Dec 2011 | 03:49 pm
...stays, it would seem, at the Vegas library. Never mind that it would appear to involve missiles and women from the 1950s. That's some reading room! It was very warm in the Vegas airport, where th...
Ryan Gosling Works in Publishing 17 Dec 2011 | 08:45 am
Just in case you haven't seen it... Ryan Gosling Works in Publishing is very amusing.
Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses, macarons, flying, and barely passing AP Physics 17 Dec 2011 | 08:33 am
This, for me, is always a high pressure shopping time of year--not just because of presents (though there's that, too--everyone, this year, is getting a book and a sweet treat, ranging from macarons t...
