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San Francisco Writers Conference February 2010
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It’s that time of the year again – when San Francisco, CA., hosts one of the best writers conferences in the industry- The San Francisco Writers Conference. It will be held in the beautiful Mark Hopkins Hotel on February 12- 14 and our editor-in-chief, Patricia V. Davis, will be [...]

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Like a number of other wonders now in my life, I came late to appreciating the importance of scientific knowledge for the common person. In high school, my lack of such was stupendously appalling. In 1970, when I was a freshman, I had a crush on a boy who came to class one day in [...]

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Joyce Maynard has a big mouth. It’s either that, or she has too much integrity to lie about anything, despite the fact that telling the truth often gets her into trouble.
When you hear our podcast interview, you decide which it is.
I first met Joyce Maynard when I signed up for one of her writing critique [...]

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Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated columnist, as well as the author of six novels, including To Die For. Her best-selling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated [...]

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I don’t know why I’m so smitten with the independent filmmakers, Noah and Logan Miller.
Maybe it’s because they finish each other’s sentences and often speak in stereo.  Maybe it’s because when they refer to each other as ‘Bro’, as in, “Bro said …”
Or, maybe it’s because they’re identical twins, like my own twin stepsons, and [...]

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Jane Friedman is the Publisher & Editorial Director at F+W Media, which is the parent company of Writers Digest. Intelligent, dedicated, hard-working, and charming, she’s right on the pulse of everything that’s happening in the chaotic and transforming cosmos that the publishing industry has become.
And because Jane is all she is, she’s a big [...]

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I left Kay Andreas after our interview for this month’s podcast feeling the way you might when a delivery of flowers shows up unexpectedly and the card is written out to you ─ surprised, delighted, and rather special.
It’s hard to explain why talking with Kay made me feel all these things, but that’s part of [...]

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The first word that comes to my mind to describe David Corbett is, “depth.” That shows through in his writing and in the man himself.
A reader will get the sense from his descriptions of complex characters in his three crime drama novels, The Devil’s Redhead, Done for a Dime, and Blood of Paradise, that he [...]

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(Sigh) One of the things I think about sometimes is whether or not, at the end of my life, I’ll feel I’d done all I should have to make the world a better place, (or at least, my little corner of it,) and if I’d lived my life as fully as I could have.
Barry Hessenius [...]