Salon Series in the Suburbs

Had a lovely time a the Salon Series in the Suburbs on Dec. 9 hosted by the fabulous Dini Karasik. I met Dini at the Yale Writers' Conference last May and it was great to see her again and meet her smart and talented friends. She lives in Kensington, Maryland, in a friendly neighborhood--many of her neighbors showed up!

Dini wrote about the afternoon on her blog including my advice on submitting for publication and writers conferences. Here's the beginning:


Sybil Baker reminds me of someone. Scout Finch comes to mind. Paper Moon’s Addie. Or that iconic little girl with pigtails and scraped knees, wearing a ruffled dress, standing up to a bully, defending someone’s honor, maybe even her own.There’s nothing childlike about Sybil.  It’s more that she exudes a certain self-assuredness, the kind some people seem to be born with.  The kind that enables archetypes like Scout and Addie to assert themselves, defy convention, question authority.
You can  read the rest of the piece here.

http://dkwritings.wordpress.com/2012/...