Per rant in previous post, if you want to read more from me, here are a few current ways: – pick up my new books, Tornado (a breast cancer memoir) or Perennial (a breast cancer and gardening romance) — available at local libraries, bookstores, online, etc. If you’re in my area, there are signed copies […]
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Warning: rant follows. I’ve been struggling with deep (sometimes enraging) frustration over the state of the publishing industry for several months now. AI is a piece of it, but it’s more a combination of the following issues: • as the barriers to putting up material and getting it (in theory) in front of readers have
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At Bradley now, waiting to board my flight home. I’d say we got about 1/8th of the work done that needs to be done to finish my parents’ estate planning, but some of the rest can be done remotely. I’m guessing I’ll have to come out at least one more time, maybe in mid-November, just
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I’ve been a little discombobulated lately — too much going on in too short a time. But I had a story due to a magazine, so I came out to the shed this morning to do a final read-through (I always read my stories aloud as a final step in finishing them, yes, the novels
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So, hey, here’s something new — I’m opening up a physical store! Well, really, just a booth. It’s part of this Sprout Incubator project (Cermak Plaza, Berwyn), where the city subsidizes new small businesses (especially women & minority-owned), so we can try out a retail space for low commitment. So the next few weeks, I’m
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If you’re an anti-Amazon person, I just wanted to note that Tornado ebook is available at Barnes & Noble, link in comments. Your local indie bookseller will also be happy to order it for you! And of course, you can always get the ebook, paperback, or hardcover from me directly. Happy to sign / personalize
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Thanks to Devi Bhaduri for taking all these pics of me at the Tornado launch last night. This was my first time reading from the book, and it’s a little different from anything I’ve done before, reading from a memoir. Reading nonfiction is sort of exposing in a different way than I’m used to? It’s
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Some pics from last night’s Deep Dish at Volumes Book Cafe!
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Arriving at the new Volumes bookstore in Wicker Park — I say new, but they’ve been at this location for almost a year now, happy almost-birthday! Great space, delighted to have Deep Dish hosted at Volumes Book Cafe again! We’ll be back here on November 16th for the SLF’s next Deep Dish reading — if
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