Gail Konop Baker's Blog

• interviews, events, reviews oh my...

  September 5, 2008

  • After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss... running, kayaking, biking, sitting around the campfire until 3 am every night, I returned to my life in fast motion. Two interviews yesterday. Next week a photo shoot for a Madison based glossy magazine and another ...
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• please read this online review of my memoir to see why NOT to be afraid to read it!!

  August 17, 2008

  • I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors. I believe it is one of the last standing taboos. But Katie Schwartz, who never had cancer and WAS afraid to read it, just wrote THE most amazingly insightful review of it... here. Please check it out and let me know what you think!! Thanks!
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• nyc trip and booklist and why I write

  August 12, 2008

  • My trip to NYC to the Backspace conference was exciting and exhausting and a taste of what's to come in the months ahead. At yoga last night I was describing what it feels like to launch (pre-launch) a book to one of the yoga instructors and I said it was like getting married, giving birth and sending your oldest off to college all at the same time. All that intensity, all that passion, all that ...
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