By amandabarrett on September 18, 2008 6:16 PM
Kelly McMasters’ memoir Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town got a shout-out from O, the Oprah Magazine: “[Kelly] also pulls off a small miracle in the telling, making rundown, unbeautiful Shirley a place of dignity, a place of heroic people and stubborn fighters, a place you’d be proud to call home.”
You can also watch Kelly on the telly (sorry) in an interview on the CW11 Morning News.
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By amandabarrett on September 16, 2008 5:45 PM
Funny lady Cindy Perman says she got her first book deal “as a direct result” of her Humor Writing class. Ha! Her new book, New York Curiosities, is part of a state-by-state series from the Globe Pequot Press, and will definitely liven up your summer road trips. Cindy’s also a writer at CNBC.com, covering the stock market and personal finance.
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By MBDev on September 16, 2008 11:38 AM
Piping the RSS Feed through FeedBurner.
By amandabarrett on September 11, 2008 6:29 PM
Fiction instructor Jackson Taylor sold his novel The Blue Orchard to Touchstone/Fireside at Simon & Schuster. Fun fact: Jackson met his agent, Nonfiction Book Proposal instructor Ryan Fischer Harbage, through the magic of mediabistro.
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