I've been asked to write a promotional post about a new movie, which is just gaining wide release in theaters this week. It is called Never Let Me Go, and is a film based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. The movie is directed by Mark Romanek and stars Keira […]
Online PhD Degrees I am pleased to announce that I won an award: a 2010 Top Creative Writing Blog. The contest was sponsored by Onlinephdprograms.com, and there were 50 of us who won. The funny thing is that several of the other award winners are blogs that I read often, including What Kate Did Next, […]
I forgot to tell you guys–I have a guest post up at my friend Linda Busby Parker's blog. She's familiar to regular readers because she's guest posted here several times. Read a bit about her trip to Europe, too. Here's the link: http://lindabusbyparker.typepad.com/lindas_blog/2010/06/this-writer-in-paris-and-guest-blogger-charlotte-rains-dixon.html
Welcome to the first Wordstrumpet mini-critique. Today's victim volunteer is none other than Christi Corbett and she bravely sent me a couple of excerpts from her novel, Along the Way Home. You can read another excerpt on Christi's blog, here, and you might also want to check out her book trailer, which is very cool, […]
Here's some sites I've found that are handling aid for the Nashville floods: 1. Facebook site that is sponsoring a local fundraiser, also lists online resources: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123717580975491&ref=mf 2. Middle Tennessee Red Cross: http://www.middletennredcross.org 3. Nashville Red Cross: http://nashvilleredcross.org 4. Nashville Flood Twitter feed with lots of great info and links: Tweets by NashvilleFlood 5. If […]
I had a blog post all ready in my brain to post today. But I can't. I'm totally distracted by news of the Nashville flood, trying to ascertain that all my friends are okay (so far all but a couple are accounted for, and several of those I've heard from have terrible damage). Half of […]
This is my office. Or at least, this is what it looked like yesterday, for awhile, after I had carted piles of books and binders and files and other must-haves out into the hall (see photo below). I am, for the moment, office-less. For years, I have been working on a grotty old desk […]
