What: I’m revising my forthcoming memoir, Bosom Buddies: How Breast Cancer fostered an Unexpected Friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. It’s a narrative that I’ve penned, with humor and self-reflection (or so I hope!), about the improbable and unexpected sisterhood that grew between me, an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewess living in Jerusalem, and Ibtisam Erekat, a devout Muslim … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Dan Alatorre
What: What do I do? Good question. My wife wants to know, too. She sees me at the computer for hours and hours, but it takes a long time for a book to be produced, so she’s certain I’ve got an online gambling addiction or I’m playing Words With Friends or something. But what I do is make people laugh. Or cry. Sometimes on the same page. Or I make them see things they thought they knew, but … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Sylvia Hubbard
What: I’ve always been a writer according to my mother. She said I lied to her a bunch when I was 6/7. After a great butt whoopin’, she ordered me to write my lie down and repeat it back to her. My pain became my pleasure and I found writing was a joy, an addiction… my passion. I thank my mother. Not for the butt whoopin', but for channeling my “power” to something that would afford me so much … [Read more...]
My Last Christmas with Mom
My fondest Christmas memory In September, 2012, my brother and I helped move my mother, age 91, to her own apartment in a retirement home in Rochester, just five minutes from me. A month or so later, she suffered compression fractures in her spine. COPD and a heart condition then took a toll. Before we knew it, Thelma had a pacemaker, was wheelchair bound and on oxygen. Still of sound mind, … [Read more...]
The Book That Almost Wasn’t – guest post by Allison Maruska
Please welcome author Allison Maruska to my blog! Playing favorites... for a reason: Almost two weeks ago, my most recent novel The Seventh Seed was released to as much fanfare as I could muster. I hosted a Facebook launch party (where Linda contributed as a guest author and was FABULOUS), wrote blog posts, created ads, set up giveaways, and watched great review after great review roll … [Read more...]
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