Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 5
May 8, 2013
The Juggle of Writing and Family
You may think that as soon as the baby is weaned or goes to first grade or leaves for college or when you retire or when things in general calm down, you'll start writing. Or you'll finish the book, or...
May 3, 2013
Hawking Wares Again
I do understand that this gets tedious - this buy my book, come see me, stuff. But KICKING IN THE WALL is now available - and I'm available, well just about everywhere. This weekend I'm talkiing to the Californa Writers...
April 29, 2013
So You're Published....
Remember how I'm always saying don't get your hopes up that the world will change when you get published? Well, I just got a very funny email from my student Jeri Okamoto Floyd on this subject. Some of her wonderful...
April 22, 2013
Needing Other Writers
Every once in awhile I get an email that reminds me why I write books about writing. Below is one of those emails. The message also makes me hope that this blog might be a way for writers to meet...
April 15, 2013
First Review of KICKING IN THE WALL!
I just got the first review of Kicking in the Wall. It's in the New York Journal of Books and reviewed by Helen Gallagher, and I'm really excited about it. Here's an excerpt: If anyone knows how to help writers...
April 13, 2013
Crossing Line in the Sand
I drew a line in the sand at Twitter. I was not going to twit or tweet or any of it. I finally caught on to Facebook (and heaven help me I really like it) but Twitter? No way. However...
April 9, 2013
Lunch with Jackie
My dear friend and student Jacqueline Winspear was in town yesterday promoting her new book (it appears on the NYT's best seller list next Sunday) and she came over to my house for lunch. We sat at my kitchen table...
March 26, 2013
The Corpse in the Office
An unpublished novel of mine has been lurking in my office for the past five years. I feel like I have a corpse in the cabinet. I finally realized I had to either deal with it or bury the damn...
March 15, 2013
Two Books by Students
Shivani Mehta has just published an amazing book of prose poems, Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded. As with all good poetry I can't really explain these poems, but Shivani's language and images simply soar. Girls with voices of glass,...
March 2, 2013
A Message from the Marketing Whore
From New World Library's Website: (Their words below, not mine.) KICKING IN THE WALL A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts, and Quotes to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals When Patti Smith was plagued with...
