This blogpost results from two different occurrences converging at the same time in my life: (1) I read the Acknowledgments page at the front of a book I was just starting to read, and (2) I thought of an old friend of my daughter’s who once gifted her with a cat who turned out to...
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What Goes Around Comes Around
I enjoy “talking shop,” and I like helping others, so it figures that when a writer, or a friend of a writer, asks me to help that writer with some aspect of his or her career, I’m delighted to oblige. I’ve met a few good friends that way. (Hi, Tricia. Hi, Shirl.) And Tuesday I...
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Friends I’ve Never Met
The internet is a wonderful thing—and so is the publishing industry. In my many, many years as a writer and editor, I’ve made the acquaintance of a great number of wonderful people. But that includes many I have yet to meet in person…or, as we write on the internet, “f2f.” I just lost one such...
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Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?
I honestly forget what the title of the song is that the line I’ve used for my title of this week’s blogpost comes from. In fact, that may even be the title. I really don’t know. But it relates well to the topic of this week’s post, which I originally was going to call, “Are...