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My Magical Year of Reading and How it Led to Writing a Book

My Magical Year of Reading and How it Led to Writing a Book

From October 2008 through October 2009, I read a book a day. My memoir about this year of reading – and a lifetime of reading — is entitled Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading.“Tolstoy” because I read his last novel during my year of reading; “Purple Chair” because I did a lot […]

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Take the Comment Challenge

Take the Comment Challenge

Three years ago, on April 28, 2008, when this writer started her first ongoing blog, even posting anything on the Internet in a blog felt like speaking in front of a crowd of hundreds, thousands, even millions. Truthfully, unless I was writing about something extremely topical, and wrote about it as soon as the news […]

Nine Reasons Why You Want to Be a Guest Blogger

Nine Reasons Why You Want to Be a Guest Blogger

You’ve got a blog. You’re already publishing content. Maybe you’re on SheWrites.com and in Red Room. You’re posting updates on Facebook and maybe Twitter too. You’re already connected, why would you take the time to be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog? Or maybe you haven’t stepped into blogging. Maybe you’re new to social […]