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I received a subscription to MasterClass for Christmas. I immediately went through the list of many offerings and compiled a wish list of classes I’d like to take. For those of you who are not familiar, MasterClass offers online classes on topics like Film & TV, Culinary Arts, Writing, Business, Photography, and Fashion. They are
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A couple of years ago, my conference going friends and I decided that we needed a change of pace. We’d been attending the Writer’s Institute in Madison for several years. The conference had treated us well, but we were feeling restless. Some in-depth research revealed a conference in Las Vegas that sounded interesting. For the
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How’s this for a fun flashback? Going through my Facebook Mary Lamphere-Author account, I recently came across a couple of old posts. These “notes” were a way to blog before I was blogging. It was interesting to read them after ALL THIS TIME! Here is the first one. (Did you check the date? This one was posted in
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This month’s Literary Mary Chats interview is with DeAnna Knippling, a talented, knowledgeable, and ballsy writer, speaker, and horror discussion panelist that I met at the Pikes Peak Writing Conference, #PPWC2018. DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado. She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South
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When Anderson Bookshop announced at the end of June, that authors Stephen King and Owen King would be making a stop in Naperville on September 29, I put the time and date of ticket release on my phone calendar. There was NO way I was missing this event! Like many of
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So, you want to know how to be a writer? You know. You do! Sit down and write. Or stand up and write– it makes no difference to the words on the page. You have been told a million times to “just write it!” A million one now. Butt in chair, hands on keyboard. Duh.
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I follow a blog called Southern Roots and Northern Blossoms by my friend Shannon Anderson. She is a wonderful writer and blogger. (I copied that line directly from her blog about Jodie Llewellyn, but hey, it’s true!) Shannon saw a post on Jodie’s blog that Jodie originally saw on a blog called Brin’s The Book Blogger Test.
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I go to WaR the first Tuesday of every month. Writers as Readers is the book club I joined through In Print. Members each select a month to “host” (we meet at Barnes & Noble) and a book for the group to read. Four meetings in, not only am I duly impressed with the selections
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