Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 19
May 16, 2011
A Writing Workout: Prompts. etc
After every seven entries in A Year of Writing Dangerously (the book I'm now working on) I have a Writing Workout - a list of five writing prompts or things to do based on the entries that came before. Here's...
May 14, 2011
Pimping Your Book
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone but I really am the Marketing Whore this month and at this point I know no shame. I'm sure you're as sick of me as I am of me. I'm selling my wares (CHERISHED:...
May 13, 2011
Retreating to Play
I'm working on the final draft of A Year of Writing Dangerously and just came across this entry about driving up to Lake Arrowhead for the writers retreat last fall. * * * 61. Retreating to Play Driving up to...
May 11, 2011
On Memoir and Lake Arrowhead Writing Retreats
My next Writers Retreat in Lake Arrowhead at the UCLA Conference Center (above) is scheduled for October 21-23. If you're interested please email me and I'll send you a flyer with all the information. (B.Abercrombie@verizon.net) And if you're interested in...
May 9, 2011
Readings and Events
Thanks to everyone who showed up at Book Passage in San Francisco last Wednesday for the CHERISHED reading. And especially the writers who read and signed books with me: Jackie Winspear, Melissa Cistaro and May-lee Chai.(The next reading is at...
May 2, 2011
If You're in San Francisco on May 4th....
PLEASE COME JOIN US Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost 05/04/2011 - 7:00pm BOOK PASSAGE51 Tamal Vista BlvdCorte MaderaJacqueline Winspear, Samantha Dunn, Melissa Cistaro, May-lee Chai and Dr. Bob Goldman will all be reading and signing...
April 27, 2011
Contradictions
Billy Collins says, "I have no work habits whatsoever...The poem will come along when it arrives. I don't write every day. I try to be on the lookout for creative opportunities, something that might trigger a poem, but I don't...
April 25, 2011
Vroman's Cherished Reading
Carolyn See has had to cancel for Thursday night at Vroman's in Pasadena. Monica Holloway (author of the wonderful memoirs Driving With Dead People & Cowboy & Wills) will be taking her place.
O Magazine & Vroman's
Some lovely things are happening with CHERISHED. An adapted version of Robin Romm's essay, "Hope" from the book appears in the May issue of O Magazine as "Hope Springs Eternal". In the same issue is an essay by Abigail Thomas...
April 22, 2011
Nelson's Great-Great-Great-Great....
...Great-Great Grandfather is above. Or so we like to think. My brother took this picture of a picture at the Santa Monica Pier, and one of Nelson himself below.
