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DEAR BOOK BIZ SANTA, The holiday season can be a beautiful, joyous period of renewal and connection. It can also reinforce feelings of loneliness and inadequacy in sensitive, vulnerable people. This includes everyone, but writers tend to struggle in particular...
Dear Book Biz Santa #2
Dear Book Biz Santa, All I want for Christmas is a big fat change of attitude by the publiciity and marketing departments. (You know who you are!) It would be so nice if authors were not regarded with dread and...
Dear Book Biz Santa…
So we're opening up the floor again this year for your letters to Book Biz Santa. Just email them to him c/o me at MJRoseAuthor at gmail.com and I'll post them here. Everything will remain anonymous. Dear Book Biz Santa,...
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LOU READS This week, Lou Reed visited my local independent bookstore to publicize his new book, The Raven. Or that was why I assumed he was coming; after having seen him I'm not sure why he was there. I was...
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Dear Dr. O'Doherty, With the most recent extreme example of plagiarism all the publishing buzz at the moment (Q.R. Markham's Assassin of Secrets, published by Mulholland, turns out to be entirely composed of text taken from well-known published books), would...
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Writing on the Air My regular improv class is on hiatus, so to keep from getting rusty I recently took a trial class at another school. It was fun, and fascinating to experience a very different approach to the same...
Books I’m Giving for the Holidays #3
After seeing Merrill Markoe Marckoe on Jon Stewart talk about her new book I knew it was a perfect book to buy for all the people on my list who either love to laugh or need to laugh. She's hysterical...
Books (and Videos) I’m giving for the holidays #2
Have you become addicted to Downton Abbey? I have and so some of my friends are getting a boxed set - box coutesy of me - Season 1 of the show via the PBS website and the book The World...
Books I’m Giving for the Holidays #1
I thought it would be fun to list the books I'm going to be giving as presents... so if you get one of these... sorry I didn't keep it a surprise:) I'm in love with this book of photos by...
Hand Yelling The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
I don't review books - but sometimes if I read one that touches me profoundly in some way I do hand yell it here on my blog. Hand selling is what independent booksellers do - hand yelling is me shouting...
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Thoughts on Entitlement I have had a difficult few weeks. Some clients at an agency where I volunteer are facing life-threatening problems that are not, technically, mental health issues, but because of budget cuts and layoffs there is no one...
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SHY I have been working on Rodgers and Barer's "Shy" in my Musical Theater class. I initially chose it as a challenge, because I do tend to present as vulnerable and sensitive onstage, and I wanted a song that would...
