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LitPark Question of the Month: 2010

What are your writing goals for 2010?

Also, please share any of your good news, whether it's an award, a publication, or overcoming writer's block. Here's to all of us having a creative year and finally reaching those milestones we've had our hearts set on for so long!

Question of the Month: Title

Tell me some of your favorite book titles. What do you think makes a good title? What catches your eye?

I'm asking this partly because, once again, I have to find a new title for my book. The marketing team thinks THE RUBY CUP sounds more like YA Fantasy than literary fiction, and I think they're right. But how to find a title that fits?

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I have a few links to share. First, when I announced a couple of months ago that I'd no longer be running interviews (because I need to knuckle down and...

Question of the Month: Pet

Tell me a story about the first animal you ever loved.

Green-Hand with his first dog, Brian.

For those following the progress on my book, I'm happy to report that I turned my edits in on time (I was asked to add a frame-story, as well as pick up the pace of one part of the book), and the edits were really well-received. I'm now waiting for the very last bit of tightening, and then I'll find out what happens next.

In the meantime, as I wait to hear back, I'm busy writing something new. I...

Dylan Landis

I started to write an introduction for this interview that talked about the hidden lives of girls and their mothers. I mentioned bullies and victims, shoplifting, unwanted pregnancies, and other topics Dylan Landis takes on in her debut short story collection, NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T LIVE LIKE THIS.

In the end, I scrapped that intro because it felt too academic. It didn't at all capture my true emotional response, which is this: I love, love, love this book. Every sentence. I hope all of you will ...