Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 18
July 1, 2011
A Writing Prompt for the 4th of July
Dear Readers - Happy July 4th weekend! Summer has finally come to Southern California and we're having sunny mornings instead of the June gloom. Here's a writing exercise for your journal this weekend: Write about a past 4th of July....
June 14, 2011
What's It About?
Vivian Gornick believes that you cannot teach people how to express themselves in a dramatic way or how to find structure for a memoir, but that you can teach them how to read and how to judge a piece of...
June 8, 2011
Book Trailers
So Rob Daly and I are now working on a book trailer for CHERISHED. This is a 90 second video designed to catch your attention, move you, and make you want to order the book instantly. Right, it ain't easy....
June 6, 2011
Sixty Rejections to a Best Seller
Kathryn Stockett got sixty rejections for her best selling novel The Help. Her first rejection read: "Story did not sustain my interest." But it was her very first and she was actually thrilled with it - a real rejection letter!...
June 5, 2011
corrected link
Thanks to those of you who pointed out that the link on my last post wasn't working. I corrected it.
June 1, 2011
An Interview with R.
(photograph by Robert V. Adams) Check out New World Review and an interview by Kara Fox of R. in this month's issue, "From Corporate to Cowboy" http://neworldreview.com/vol_4No_21/h... (One of my favorite pictures of my husband below.)
May 27, 2011
Tips for Marketing Books
Gone are the days when writers could just stay home and write, now we need to market ourselves up the ying yang. When you get a book published you have to get out and sell it (and you thought writing...
May 25, 2011
Diving Not Drowning
The fear of going back into your past – reliving trauma or grief – sometimes can block writing about the most important part of your story. Carl Jung made the comparison of James Joyce and his daughter, who was schizophrenic,...
May 20, 2011
Another Reading for CHERISHED
I was just starting to write this post when one of the CHERISHED writers, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, sent me a link to her blog where she posted a wonderful account, with photos, of last night's reading at Flintridge Bookstore and...
May 18, 2011
Village Books, Flintridge Books etc.
Yes, I know the photograph is sideways. When I opened it in iPhoto to correct the position it was fine, everybody was sitting up not looking like they were lolling on a beach somewhere and staring at the horizon surrounded...
