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Nelson Plus Apology

by Barbara Abercrombie • February 9, 2012 • 1 Comment

Due to the huge demand for more pictures of Nelson (well, okay, Carol and Patti asked and Nelson thanks you for your interest) here's a picture of Nelson taken this morning. The apology is for the Comment section being closed. I've tried getting in touch with Typepad about this but haven't heard back. If you…

Author Central: The Return of You-Know-Who

by Barbara Abercrombie • January 16, 2012 • 7 Comments

Amazon has this cool new thing for published writers called Author Central where you can click on Book Scan Highlights and discover not only how many copies of your books sold through Amazon the previous week but where they sold. (A shout out to you Salt Lake City for buying all those copies of CHERISHED over…

Read This

by Barbara Abercrombie • March 25, 2011 • 2 Comments

My friend and student, Elizabeth Aquino, has a beautiful blog – both in content and design. And also in name: a moon, worn as if it had been a shell Check it out: http://www.elizabethaquino.blogspot.com/ Her latest post is about baking a cake and has layers of meaning. Then scroll down to read her moving account…

More Info On Forming Your Own On-line Writing Group

by Barbara Abercrombie • November 21, 2009 • 7 Comments

If you’re interested in forming an on-line writing group here’s some wonderful advice from two of my former students, Kathleen Guthrie and Lisa Manterfield, (posted under Comments this week.) From Kathleen: Our online group has been going strong for a couple of years now — we all met in your classes (at…

Thank You

by Barbara Abercrombie • January 23, 2009 • 19 Comments

Amazingly I almost missed our anniversary. And by ‘ours’ I mean yours and mine. We’ve been together on this blog for three years now. Three years! If it weren’t for your comments –either posted or when I’ve met you in person at bookstores or in classes – I’d never have kept going. So thank you.…

Writing in 2009

by Barbara Abercrombie • January 1, 2009 • 13 Comments

January 1, 2009 Happy New Year everybody. What will be different for you this year? What do you want to change? What do you want to accomplish? (I’m just a fool for New Year resolutions. I make a list every single year.) You could start writing a page a day and by next time…

Why I Believe In Gay Marriage

by Barbara Abercrombie • November 1, 2008 • 20 Comments

This is not a political blog and I’ve tried to stick to writing, not my candidate of choice (however should he lose I’ll be posting this blog from Mexico or Canada next week.) But I do think we writers need to stand up for moral issues we believe in, and right now in California we…

Two Blogs and a Website

by Barbara Abercrombie • October 11, 2008 • 7 Comments

Two of my students, both outstanding writers, have blogs. “His Big Fat Indian Wedding” and “A moon, worn as if it had been a shell” Check them out: http://www.hisbigfatindianwedding.blogspot.com/ www.elizabethaquino.blogspot.com ________________________________________________________________ If you have a Mac and need some hands on assistance via a workshop, check out my friend Rob Daly’s website: www.robdalyworkshops.com.

The Lost Post

by Barbara Abercrombie • July 15, 2008 • 8 Comments

After my last post asking readers what their writing rituals are, Debra in a comment asked me about my own rituals. So early Sunday morning as I walked on the beach I wrote in my head a whole post about my rituals. The post was really terrific – funny, interesting and useful. Except I didn’t…