I’m deep in the thick of things, and writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf is simultaneously easier and more challenging than I thought it would be. I feel kind of schizophrenic…by day, I’m instructing people on how best to use Twitter to promote their businesses and doing marketing plans. But a huge
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One of the best parts of doing research for this book is noticing how the lives of literature’s greatest writers and heroines intersect. So far the Brontë sisters take the literary cake for references and ruminations: So full of talent, and after working long, just as success, love and happiness
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Well, some writers must have an ivory tower but I need trouble. – Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Today opened with news that L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes are Quoted will finally be published, extremely posthumously, in October. Anyone who read Rilla of Ingleside and got a glimpse of the Blythes’ darker and more tragic side will probably relish the book, which is being teased as actually addressing adult
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When I read the word “perseverance,” it’s in a self-conscious Jane Eyre type of voice, but that tongue-in-cheek delivery doesn’t really do justice to the concept. All of the plucky heroines and authors of The Heroine’s Bookshelf have one thing in common: they’re not easily swayed by fate’s slings, arrows,
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