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Strange but True Stories of Survival
Summertime update: My essay “The Saltwater Twin” (which the observant among you will notice shares a name with this blog) is coming out in a great magazine called Creative Nonfiction. This month! As...
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Whose Story? The Ethics of Writing Memoir
I’ve been jittery ever since I found out my essay “The Saltwater Twin” would be published in Creative Nonfiction this summer. I know that’s the objective: I want stuff I write to be published, to be...
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New Year’s News
Now this is the Law of the Jungle— as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. Rudyard...
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7 Things I’m Looking Forward to This Summer
photo by Julie Falk Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. —Henry James Even though the official start to summer is...
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Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014
I mentioned a while back that “The Saltwater Twin,” the first chapter of my book, is included in this year’s Best American Nonrequired Reading. Well, it’s in bookstores now and you can go out and get...
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On Rejection: Keep Looking for the Right Address
photo credit: pixabay I’m querying agents. This involves carefully crafting letters tailored to each individual agent on my list, which means researching what kind of work and which authors each one...
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Birthdays
photo: Wikimedia Commons Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?...
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The Saltwater Twin and Other Mythical Creatures: A Memoir
photo by tata_aka_T on flickr And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here swaying their crenellated fans between the reefs and besides you breathe differently...
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