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Alice’s Top-Secret Editing Procedure – We’re Here to Help YOU

March 10, 2011 by

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I’m not particularly egotistical. I love what I do, and I think perhaps I might be good at it. Perhaps in a handful of years, if my career takes off, I might be persuaded to cautiously label myself “a good writer”. Perhaps. Most likely under the influence of a few G&Ts. This is because even […]

Music and Writing – Two

March 10, 2011 by

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Stress! It is very stressful! Some things have been going on. One of which is that we’ve decided to submit Maybe to Kirkus Reviews, so we’ll have to have the manuscript in perfect shape about oh, three months earlier than expected in time to allow for a Kirkus quote in the printed copies. Herewith, I […]

Music and Writing

March 8, 2011 by

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Sometimes I write a chapter and I know exactly where it came from. Late in the book, my main character (a 20-something coke addict named Maybelle) gives in to her addiction under the pressure of anxiety and consumes more drugs than she can handle. I have tried, throughout the book, to fashion a parallel between […]

I am writing a book.

February 7, 2011 by

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It’s called “Maybe & the Wolf” (perhaps with different punctuation after editing). Are you nice? I’m pretty nice. Let’s be friends.