Good news: I just got official permission to reprint a Ted Kooser poem in my essay anthology, CHERISHED: 22 Writers Celebrate Animals They’ve Loved and Lost. When all the essays are in I’ll let you know who the other authors are. I’m excited about this book – and I’ll no doubt go on and…
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Flashing at Bookstores
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 9 Comments
The thing about being a writer is that you’re always spilling the beans. Especially memoir and essay writers. (Fiction writers can maintain a bit more dignity – but not a whole lot cause you know they’re thinking about what they write even if not actually experiencing it.) I have friends who are not writers and…
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More Notes from the Marketing Whore
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 3 Comments
Upcoming Events: January 11 – Changing Hands Book Store, Tempe, Arizona January 12 – The Well Red Coyote, Sedona, Arizona January 26 – The California Writers Club at Borders Books, Montaclair, CA March 1 – Flintridge Books, La Canada, CA (And thanks to all of you who showed up at Village Books in Pacific Palisades…
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Five Thousand Pumpkins to Sell
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 8 Comments
One minute – well, actually for years – you’re sitting at your desk in your slippers and sweats, tapping away at the keyboard, living in your own little world where you have total control and visions of truth, beauty, honesty etc., and then the next minute you’ve got like five thousand pumpkins to sell. Your…
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Your Great Questions, My Dumb Answers
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 4 Comments
A few months ago I asked readers of this blog to help me with an author’s questionnaire that I was filling out for New World Library. (When you publish a book you’re asked to come up with questions about the book that can be sent out to interviewers.) I came up with four questions about…
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What Would You Stay Up Until Midnight For?
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 10 Comments
Or (for those of you who are night owls) what would you get up at five am for? I don’t know about you, but I’m staying up until midnight for a phone call from Brad about – surprise, surprise – my book. The marketing whore is back. Normally I get up at 5:30 am which…
