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Storytime: Mother of My Son
Remember storytime? Remember sitting criss-cross applesauce on carpet squares in the Public library? I do. Fondly. During this crazy new world of quarantine, I’ll be reading/recording my novel Mother of My Son on youtube. My hope is to post a couple chapters every weekday, 7pm London UK time, 1pm US central time. No one likes a cluttered inbox so I won’t blog post every time chapters are available so be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel for updates. Discussion welcome! Sharing encouraged! Pop questions in the contact me page and I’ll address them, hopefully during one of the readings (and I won’t embarrass you by revealing your name). Grab…
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Village People
I’ve always kind of bristled at the phrase It takes a village to (fill in the blank) . But sometimes, it does. Before my novel was published I heard so many authors say something like “much of the work happens after the book is published because then you have to market…” and I’d stand there and smile with the phrase to market to market to buy a fat pig, running through my brain because the word market didn’t have much meaning. Here’s how I define it, what I’ve whittled it down to, at least with books: There are lots of books out there and you want yours to stand out.…