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May.03.2013
I love Apple! Ibooks is featuring sneak peaks of "eagerly awaited novels" including Is This Tomorrow
We're an all Apple household. My husband and two Macs and an Ipad and an Iphone, I have an Iphone and two Macs, and my son has two Macs. And now the amazing people at Apple have created a sneak peak of "eagerly anticipated books" so you can read four chapters as a preview! I am so jazzed! Here...
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Apr.23.2013
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this interview. I think I first met A. S. King at a Backspace conference and we just hit it off. I'm rabid about her work, too, and every time I run into her, the world just seems brighter. In fact, a month ago, I was in the ladies room at the...
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Apr.19.2013
Facing the “You’re a Failure” Voice
Caroline Leavitt on dealing with fear
Someone recently asked me in an interview, “How do you obliterate that voice inside of you that tells you you’re a failure as a writer?”
I laughed when I heard the question because most of the writers I...
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Apr.19.2013
New lives for old books! Thrilled that Dzanc rEprint series is reprinting my backlist!
Dzanc Books rEprint is an innovative new publishing venture by the genius Dan Wickett, dedicated to publishing great works of contemporary literature in e-book formats. I'm honored to be chosen as one...
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Apr.19.2013
Sneak listen of Is This Tomorrow audiobook!From the amazing Xe Sands, who did the audiobook:
Finally time to start sharing "sneak listens" of some recent favorite projects that will be releasing rapid-fire, starting with this marvelous book from Caroline Leavitt, IS THIS TOMORROW (...
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Mar.05.2013
Get ready, because the atoms, protons and electrons are about to go zooming around in high gear--something that always happens when David Henry Sterry and Arielle Eckstut are about. I think I first met them when they were writing The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, a hilarious...
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Feb.25.2013
The sublime Julianna Baggott talks about Fuse, trilogies, dreaming about storyworld and so much more
Julianna Baggott is flat-out wonderful. Funny, smart, generous and warm, she's also one of the most creative and adventurous writers I know. She's published an astonishing 19 books in a dozen years. Pure, the first book in her trilogy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an ALA...
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Feb.17.2013
I first met Sara J. Henry at the Brattleboro Book Fest and we went out for lunch and promptly bonded. Her novel, Learning to Swim, won the 2012 Anthony Award and 2012 Agatha Award for best first novel and the 2012 Mary Higgins Clark Award, was an Emerging Author pick at Target, and was...
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Feb.10.2013
The New York Times' Modern Love is the Holy Grail for writers. I tried six times to get in and every time was politely rebuffed. My pieces took place too far in the past. The tone wasn't right. The subject matter wasn't quirky enough. I just gave up, assuming they hated me, but then a month ago, I...
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Feb.03.2013
You know the friend you can sit across a table from in a cafe for lunch, and the next thing you know it's dinner time and you've been laughing so hard that you haven't even touched your chocolate croissant? That's what being with Meredith Maran is like. I love Meredith. You've never met anyone...
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Feb.01.2013
One of my favorite books of the year has got to be Alex George's A Good American, now in paperback. It pulses with life as it follows an immigrant family through decades of fascinating history, and it's captured all of the best adjectives: moving, funny, unforgettable. Plus, Alex is one of the...
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Jan.08.2013
Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares magazine and is Distinguished Publisher-in-Residence at Emerson College. She is the award-winning author of A Sandhills Ballad (Nebraska, 2011) and This Is Not the Tropics and is the editor of two anthologies...
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Dec.27.2012
David Abrams' debut, Fobbit, a harrowingly funny novel about the Iraq War, was not only a New York Times notable book of 2012, but it zoomed onto the Best Books Lists from Barnes & Noble, Paste, Amazon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Publishers Weekly--and my own personal list, too. He's also...
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Dec.11.2012
Below is the first chapter of my upcoming novel from Algonquin Books, Is This Tomorrow (May 2013) Hope you like it.
Chapter One 1956
She came home to find him in her kitchen. She was in no mood, having spent...
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Dec.04.2012
Critically acclaimed novelist Rochelle Jewell Shapiro is an integral part of my life. I can't imagine the planet without her in it, both as friend, trusted reader, and totally mischievous partner-in-crime. But there's even more interesting about her. Her piece for the New York Times Lives, "The...
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About Caroline
Caroline Leavitt's 9th novel, Pictures of You, was published by Algonquin Books in 2011 and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of eight other novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air,...
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