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July 07, 2008

SITTING PRETTY

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I just wanted to make a public thank you to everyone who heard my cry for hair and body products. Well, actually, I just asked for hair stuff, but you wisely deduced that a region without pink oil, probably isn't equipped to handle chronic ashiness. So right you were. As you can see from the photo, I have two bottles of pink oil. I think I will leave one in the common cupboard. The next sister that comes here will be soooo grateful.

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Category: Travels & Rambles

July 04, 2008

Mid-Point Progress Report

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Well, this is officially half-way through my residency at Blue Mountain Center. Two weeks down, two to go. I am happy to report that I am making some good progress here on my novel. I am trying to figure out the best way to report. There is always word count, but that doesn't really get to the heart of the effort. But I guess we have to work with what can be measured. So here goes:

Pages: 53
Words: 13,571

Not bad at all.

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Category: Writing

July 02, 2008

Lovely Day Links

Here are a few interesting things on the web these days:

  • If you notice that you book cover looks a lot like Dan Savage's magazine cover, don't tell him. He'll put you on blast.
  • Maud saw this first. Imagine this. A woman sells her dearly departed husband's treaured book collection and guess what? The "books" are actually secret containers for his freaky polaroids.
  • Barbara Bauer is suing everyone from bloggers to YouTube for saying she is the worst agent in the biz. Ed Leave-No-Stone-Unturned Champion, has a nice set of links on the subject.
  • Michael Bourett explains how the book advance game works. (Short version, it's The View From Lookout Pointa lot like playing spades.)
  • And last, this is not a link, but I had a really bad day yesterday. I took a trip to the post office to get some stamps and I got totally skeeved by this old dude. I lost a whole day's work fretting about it, thinking of what I should have said, should have done. Today, my new friend Liese emailed me the photo you see here; she took on her morning hike. Beauty heals, y'all.

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    Category: Travels & Rambles

    • Around the World in A Day

    I am very excited to report that I am going to address FEMRITE, a Ugandan women's writers organization on July 17-- and I don't even need my passport. The US State Department, which extended the invitation, has arranged for me to take part in a teleconfrence. The theme of the event is "Telling The Unfmailiar Story" with an emphasis on using contemporary literature to talk about history. I hope that I will be able to get some photos emailed to me from the Ugandan side of the conversation. More details to come!

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    Category: News

    July 01, 2008

    Have You Found Her Video?

    You might remember a few months ago when I read "Have You Found Her" by Janice Earlbaum and I dug it. (And remember when we read together to benefit Girls Write Now?) Well, I thought I had just kind of read the book, dug it and moved on to dig other things. Well, today I saw the book trailer. It's so good! Who knew Janice was so talented? I meant I knew she was talented, but who knew she was sooooo brilliant? Go look at it. Janice plays ALL the roles!

    So now, I want to make a video. I really really really do. But, uh, maybe I need to go finish the book? So on that note, I am signing off.

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