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I did two book signings in February and one last week. I was, to put it mildly, extremely nervous about this. I’m an introvert that doesn’t like meeting new people face to face. I don’t like pitching things to people after years of retail having to do just that. I really don’t like pitching my…

I'm almost pretty sure I'm not the only 22 year old that has high expectations for myself and life in general. I mean sure I'm still "young" and I have "a long ways to go", but is any of that really suppose to make me feel better? Should I not want more just because I'm less than a couple of decades away from being forty? I can't be the only one freaking out about how fast time is flying by, and still I have no idea where I'm going to be in the next five years. Heck the next five months…

Irish author Eimear McBride, 37, won the £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in central London for her novel 'A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing'.

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Our friend Maureen Rolla alerted us to Ira Flatow's compelling NPR interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson, about his book Letters to a Young Scientist. Wilson is the rare scientist who is deeply aware of the creative process. His words are powerful and true no matter what your field or medium. At the website, you can listen and/or read the transcript, but here's some stunning bits: FLATOW: ...You do mention in part of your book about the part of creativity is to do sort…

Amy Tan—the award-winning author of The Joy Luck Club—teaches you how to write fiction using emotional memory to maximize creativity and authenticity in your story.

The artists behind this year’s winning books, in their studios.

Future Famous Writer, writing inspiration

I love this idea. The Passive Voice blog shared this great idea from Shared Worlds. Shared Worlds asked some of speculative fiction’s finest artists, editors and writers to write advice on their own hands and send in a picture. Very simple and effective! One of them is this great picture from Neil Gaiman and I […]