LauraPalooza 2012
- 07.12.2012 - 2 Comments Click here to read/write comments
It’s here! LauraPalooza 2012. I’m here, too, live-tweeting from an auditorium in Mankato. Join me? #liw
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Enough is Enough – Flowers in the Attic Readalong
- 06.14.2012 - 12 Comments Click here to read/write comments
I wasn’t going to do it. How could I possibly suggest that Flowers In The Attic be read along to on a blog entitled The Heroine’s Bookshelf? Forget its compelling content, its underground appeal, its beach read perfection. Don’t I have a reputation to uphold, a standard of Literature to
Read more...Heroines IRL
- 05.22.2012 - 3 Comments Click here to read/write comments
To say I’ve gotten intimate with my literary heroines is…a bit of an understatement. They’ve inhabited my bed and the insides of my eyelids. They are counted among my closest friends. All of which is to say it’s kind of weird that I didn’t really visit many heroic home sites
Read more...Waiting
- 04.24.2012 - 6 Comments Click here to read/write comments
So…the thing people tell you that you never, ever believe about the world of publishing is “prepare to wait.” Because…well, everyone else has to wait, right? Your query letter is the one that will get plucked from the pile and immediately noticed. Your story is the one that will sell
Read more...Rest in Peace, Charlotte
- 03.31.2012 - Be The First To Comment
157 years ago today, Charlotte Brontë died in an agony of nausea thought to be caused by hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness. During the course of her short life (she died at 39), she was a teacher, governess, and author. She was a not-so-patient daughter, a discontented lover, and
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