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November 05, 2008 04:26 PM EST -- Self-publishing can help you get your book noticed in the marketplace and we want to help you get self-published ! We asked you to submit your ideas for your own book jackets. You were asked to pretend . . . more
March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST -- I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true. It's a little less lonely for . . . more
February 15, 2007 11:14 PM EST -- One of the most famous lines in all of fiction was the opening of Charles Dickens  classic, A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...” As a debut novelist, . . . more
June 19, 2007 03:08 PM EDT -- So I was asked to talk a bit about getting published.  I've been asked about this an awful lot so it seems as good a topic as any . . . after my usual disclaimers :)  Disclaimer the First-- . . . more
July 03, 2008 11:27 AM EDT -- Write what you know. How often have you heard that? How often has it frustrated you?   "I can't write about a black man unless I'm black."   "I can't . . . more
Words
by Beth H.
views: 96 | rating: 10 | comments: 38
May 25, 2007 11:01 PM EDT -- Words.  I love everything about them.  I love how they look on the page, how they sound to the ear, how they create worlds. Letter combinations fascinate me.  Ck has its own identity . . . more
June 18, 2007 04:40 PM EDT -- Our First Chapters Writing Competition was a tremendous success, with two Gather authors to be published in the fall. Terry Shaw, author of The Way Life Should Be, and Geoffrey Edwards, author of Fire . . . more
Genre vs Literature
by Rebecca Burgess
views: 103 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 24
August 22, 2007 09:57 PM EDT -- Unless you happen to already have the blessing of an agent and a publishing contract securely tucked under your bed, chances are you’ve wondered, “What the hell do I call my book?” Western? . . . more
July 11, 2007 06:21 PM EDT -- Voting in the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition is simple! If after reading a chapter you’re so impressed that you’d recommend the book for publishing, rate that chapter a 10. Very . . . more
December 26, 2007 01:30 PM EST -- Issue #22 Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to this issue of Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit. Have you ever wondered how the really big crime writers get their information about . . . more
Editing Is Your Friend
by Anne W.
views: 45 | rating: 10 | comments: 15
September 15, 2007 07:25 PM EDT -- Editing Is Your Friend    As an editor, I find many writers have either edited their work too much or too little. The key is to edit well enough to create a great story, but not too much . . . more
April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT -- Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . . more
August 06, 2007 01:53 PM EDT -- Loving Frank is a work of fiction based on events relating to the love affair of a brilliant, controversial architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of his clients, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Mamah, along with . . . more
July 11, 2007 10:18 PM EDT -- Mom has been bugging me lately about meeting someone special and settling down.  I am not, it turns out, getting any younger.  Evidently there is an expiration date on me somewhere that I have . . . more
March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT -- One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway,  and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . . more
November 01, 2007 10:31 AM EDT -- I recently had the privilege of interviewing bestselling author David Baldacci.   Mr. Baldacci's new book "Stone Cold" will be released on November 6th.   He will also be hosting . . . more
November 07, 2008 11:19 PM EST -- Gone With the Wind , published in 1936, remains one of the best-selling books of all time. Very impressive for a first time novelist, who also won the Pulitzer prize for the book in 1937. The movie . . . more
March 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT -- Hello Gather,    Since my radio program Speaking of Faith began, people have asked how I came to care about large questions of meaning, how I think about the dangers and promises of religion . . . more
May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT -- On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . . more
March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST -- For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine   were  “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . . more
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