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. ).
A friend of a friend just wrote to me: “I just finished “Warming Up,” and wanted you to know how much I enjoyed it. If I could write a novel like that, I think I would really feel like I made a contribution to our society. It has so many terrific elements and themes. But, […]
I’ll be reading from Warming Up on May 28 at 7 pm at Boswell Book Company, 2559 Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI. Thanks to my publicist, Mary Bisbee-Beek, for setting this up, and thanks to Meg Ciccantelli, Maggie Daun and Roswitha Both for helping me spread the word up north.
Thanks to Women & Children First for a wonderful evening reading at their store May 9. Thanks to everyone who attended, also! Owner Linda Bubon shared half the “pass the hat” Women’s Voices Fund collection with The Night Ministry. She is always so generous to good causes as well as women and local authors.
April 26, 2013 By Mary Hutchings Reed We’ve been writing together for a year now, and, if you did the page-a-day thing, you’ve got a manuscript ready for editing. I’m guessing, though, that a page a day — while a worthy goal — is too ambitious for a first-time novelist who is also […]
FOR THE CAUSE: Guest blogged today (4/25/2013) at WhereWritersWin.com For the Cause: Indie Publishing and Affinity Marketing One of the hardest things for me to do as an independently published author (a.k.a. “self-published”) is to hawk my own books. Yes, I know that every author, even those published by traditional presses, must market, market, market, […]
Publishing makes a writer an author March 29, 2013 By Mary Hutchings Reed This is my 12th column in this space, the month when those who’ve been following the page-a-day program are finishing your first drafts (you are, aren’t you?) and dreaming of your appearance on Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and The New York Times Best […]
Is the storyteller an expert witness? In other words, of the right age, intelligence, level of awareness or perspective to tell the story? Who is telling the story? Is the storyteller otherwise reliable? Does the storyteller have an engaging voice? Do we get to know the storyteller through his/her observations?
March 1, 2013 If you took my advice from my last column and are thinking of attending a workshop or writersconference this year, I donʹt want you blindsided by a subtlety of craft that trips us all up from time to time — point of view. Editors are very attuned to this […]
My writing group will meet tonight, and one seat will be empty. It’s been empty off and on for the past few months, as the ravages of cancer and cancer treatments slowly overtook him. It started with what was surely the worst case of bronchitis ever—some thanks for quitting smoking!—and revealed itself as stage IV […]
