nonfiction
October 2, 2009
- Thank you everyone for your awesome participation in my September-as-Book-Month project! And as promised, here's a rundown of what YOU read this month. (including books you were just starting, or were next on your list to read) Books:- 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs - A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson.- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray- Biggie by Voletta Wallace- Catching Fire by ...
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September 30, 2009
- On Saturday, October 17, at 10:30 a.m., award-winning writer and editor Adele Annesi will present "Branding for Writers: The Importance of the Platform," a seminar for fiction and nonfiction authors at Sycamore Hills Park Community Center in Avon, Conn. Sponsored by the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association (CAPA), "Branding for Writers" explores the concept and ...
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September 29, 2009
- Thomas Carlyle wrote that “A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.” There may be some debate as to whether Timothy Leary’s life was well-spent. However, his biography by John Higgs is one of the most well-written and compelling books you’ll ever come across. “I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary” is an alternative history of the turbulent times that ...
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September 24, 2009
- The other night I was listening to the host of a jazz program on the Boston NPR station talk with Branford Marsalis. During their discussion Branford described another musician as not being a among the "nerd Jazz" set. Asked about the term "nerd jazz," he said that there are many jazz musicians that have begun their careers in the past 20 or 30 years that have been educated ...
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September 22, 2009
- The writing, or at least the depth we are able to dive to, depends on our ability to be engaged in our lives and experience the variety of people that exist outside our front door. I say this as someone who really enjoys living a private existance and selected, in part, writing in order to try and find some path where I could create in anonymity and quiet. However, as I look at the stories I have ...
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September 10, 2009
- I look at my career as a writer as something that involves more than one aspect in order to create the whole. I am at core a writer and my first love has always been creative writing, whether that is narrative nonfiction, fiction in all of its forms, or what have you. The problem is, despite my enjoyment of those forms, in order to earn a living I have to find work as a writer than seems and ...
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September 9, 2009
- So I've been holding my breath. Kirkus and Booklist both gave great reviews to Rock 'N' Roll Soldier, the Vietnam War memoir for young adults I co-wrote with veteran Dean Kohler, just pubbed last week by HarperTeen. But School Library Journal, another of those key library industry journals, had yet to weigh in. Maybe SLJ didn't like the book. Maybe they thought it wasn't even worth reviewing. Or ...
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September 7, 2009
- I've learned over the past few months that being a ghost writer can be something of a perilous existence. Especially when it involves relying on another "editor" to interpret research and give guidance on how the book should be written.In my latest taste of the many pitfalls of being the ghost in a writing relationship, I worked for a company where the owner essentially conducted ...
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September 5, 2009
- Reviews in newspapers and magazines are nice, but reviews by real-life readers are the best!Check this one out by a tenth grader in the Westchester, NY area:Dean Kohler’s rock n’ roll memoir is the true story of how even during combat in the Vietnam war, creating music is still possible. Right out of high school, Kohler gets drafted to Nam. With a record deal on hand, …Kohler has a hard ...
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September 3, 2009
- Simply do this: 1. Write a short, true story of 600-1500 words in answer to my trademark question: "If you could tell just one small story that would capture your Mother's character and keep her spirit alive, what would it be?" In other words, the story I am encouraging you to write embraces a special kind of memoir that takes a look at the heart and soul of an important woman in ...
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