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February 7, 2013
The Recurring Dream
If you need a reset to your day, take four minutes and watch this completely bizarre but somehow satisfying video.
My Recurring Dream from André Chocron // Frokost Film on Vimeo.
Today is THE OBVIOUS GAME's official pub date, which means mostly you can now buy it in ebook form. Cheaper! Faster! Or you can just try to win it.
My publisher is giving away two paperbacks and 5 ebooks.
My friend Alice is giving away a paper copy with a signed bookplate.
If you do end up reading it, writerly...
February 6, 2013
All About the Writing Process
Since TOMORROW! Is THE OBVIOUS GAME's technical publication date (meaning you can finally buy it on NOOK and Kindle tomorrow on major booksellers' sites), I have been typing my damn fingers off for the past few months to spread the love around the blogosphere. (I am fully aware the entire Internet doesn't read my blog. Thank God. Some people on the Internet are super mean.)
Here are some guests posts and interviews that are already up, if you are interested.
My horrifying stats on queries an...
February 2, 2013
February 1, 2013
The Unexpected Significance of the Purple Shirt
Since we went through that unemployment thing this fall and winter, I haven't bought the little angel any new clothes since the beginning of the school year. She has a penchant for wearing the same thing over and over, and lately she's been looking like Little Orphan Annie with holes in her leggings. All this forced me to do what I loathe doing, which is digging through all her clothes figuring out what to donate, what to give away and what to toss before I go buy her some leggings that don't...
January 31, 2013
The Writer Who Doesn't Write Every Day
Today I have a post up over at She Writes, which is a great community site for authors and writers. Here's an excerpt:
I am a writer who doesn't write every day.There are very few of us, the writers who will admit publicly to not
valuing daily writing. Not just not doing it or scheduling it, but not
seeing the point at all.Let me back up. I know plenty of successful writers who are much more
disciplined than I am. They get up early or stay up late or tap away
while their kids leap around th...
January 30, 2013
The Great Unwashed
Every weekday morning that I manage to make it through my email before noon, I do a thing on Twitter/Facebook that I call #morningstumble. Basically I go to StumbleUpon and hit the button until I find something that makes me smile or makes me think, then I share it with that hashtag. It's one way of ensuring I'm not talking about my damn self all the time.
However, it often exposes my dirty little secret: there are huge swaths of culture that in my thirty-eight years I have missed. This morni...
January 29, 2013
Places to Win THE OBVIOUS GAME
Hi everyone-
There are a few giveaways running right now for THE OBVIOUS GAME. I thought I should tell you about them before they expire! I will most likely do another giveaway on Goodreads in a month or so.
1 copy on Want Not (ends February 1, 2013)
1 copy on Rancid Raves (ends January 31, 2013)
3 copies on Goodreads (ends February 5, 2013)
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Obvious Game
by Rita Arens
Giveaway ends February 05, 2013.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Ent...
January 28, 2013
Seattle
It's beautiful here, but there's no place like home. Back tonight.
January 24, 2013
Shelves of Dreams
I'm headed out tomorrow to join my friend Erica at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Through a series of fortunate events, it's going to be an extremely inexpensive trip for me, so I figured why not? I really have no business being there, as I'm not a librarian, but it seemed like a good way to meet librarians. Librarians and book bloggers are about the best word-of-mouth referrers an author could ask for, and librarians often double as book bloggers, so, there...
January 22, 2013
Listen to Your Mother -- in Kansas City
Today I wrote about the national face of Ann Imig's amazing live performance series, Listen to Your Mother, on BlogHer. Here I thought I'd share details about the Kansas City show, which is directed by my friends Erin Margolin and Laura Seymour. Here are the details:
Be part of this national event that will be in Kansas City for the first time on May 11, 2013. We want you to join us in giving Mother’s Day a microphone!
You’re invited to join other Kansas Citians in a national series of live...
