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Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
There’s a story in there somewhere… I’ve been querying a book and it has not been going well. I had a few requests from conference meetings and Twitter pitchfests, but in the actual…

Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
By Zoë Bossiere A couple of weeks ago, a piece by Jia Tolentino came out in The New Yorker called “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over.” The title alone was enough to deluge social…

Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
By Shawna Kenney First thought, best thought; revise, revise, revise. Write first thing in the morning when the mind is alert; write at night and never while sober. Do it alone, in an office…

What fun to write my guest post for Patricia McLinn’s blog this past week, in a whirlwind trip down memory lane! I revisited one of my many past lives – this one as a police/fire/9-1-1 dispatcher in the late ’70s/early … Continue reading →

Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
Gilbert’s father bought a great-great-great grandson of this legendary bull, shown in 1935 By Richard Gilbert Almost three years ago, I began writing about accompanying my father to buy a Hereford bull when…

Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
By Dinty W. Moore I am reviewing a blank book.  The pages are entirely empty – not a single word.  That makes it nonfiction, yes? Because there is no fiction printed within. And…

I am not the person that wrote this, but I join the many folks who are signing on and spreading the word. This is long but it is important, and it deserves wider dissemination than the Facebook rounds it’s making: This is … Continue reading →