For WARMING UP, a top ten award in the Writers Digest Self-Pubbed Book Awards, mainstream fiction category.
For WARMING UP, a top ten award in the Writers Digest Self-Pubbed Book Awards, mainstream fiction category.
Amicus Scriptor September 27, 2013 Last month, I encouraged you to submit your story or self-contained novel excerpt to a magazine, journal or contest. And today, you may be all ready to go — story polished, guidelines followed, deadline still pending in the future. But perhaps you haven’t yet worked up the […]
BY JENN BALLARD LAW BULLETIN STAFF WRITER After 37 years of practice, Mary HutchingsReed is accustomed to interpreting the law for her clients. “I practice in an area w here my clients tend not to be law yers,” she said of her w ork handling marketing, advertising, trademark, copyright and entertainment law matters. “I tend to work […]
In last month’s pontification, I declared that writers do writerly things — join, learn, explore, write, share. And then, of course, the dreaded “submit.”I’m not sure which is more frightening, not knowing how and where to submit, or getting back the dreaded rejection. Lawyers don’t win all their cases, and yet they keep […]
July 26 AMICUS SCRIPTOR column: In the past few months, I’ve done some bookstore readings for my new novel, Warming Up, and at a couple of them, there have been people there I didn’t know! Not friends. Not friends of friends. Not fellow alumni. Generic members of the public. Why? Why were they […]
“A year before Helman looked back on his career, Mary Hutchings Reed, a former partner now of counsel at the similarly elite Winston & Strawn, also looked back on a career that started 20 years after Helman’s, and came to similar conclusions: Harder still for a lawyer billing by the hour to suggest that she […]
Thanks to the women of Freebon & Peters for a wonderful discussion of Leaning In and Courting Kathleen Hannigan. My contemporary Eileen Trost wrote: “Thank you for your thoughts and insights, and your unique contribution to the advancement of women by memorializing where we have come from, and keeping us mindful that we have a […]
Carving a story from blank marble June 28, 2013 By Mary Hutchings Reed In my new novel, ʺWarming Upʺ (SheWritesPress, 2013), amateur sculptor Dr. Haverill Richardson, therapist to the main character, is unable to take the first swing at a hunk of marble because he doesnʹt know what itʹs going to be when he is […]
Read it out loud. Read it backwards. Take out every word ending in “-ly.” Review every use of “was.” Spell check. And though it may be politically incorrect, every editor says it: “You’ve got to kill your babies.” In other words, edit your work. Writing 500 words a day for the past year, you […]
We were ranked “Band One” by Chambers USA in Illinois (and thanks to whoever said such nice things about me! Also pleased to be in the same “rank” as our friends at Leavens, Strand & Glover. If you click on the picture below you should be able to read it. ).