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Seasoned journalist Dina Santorelli blogs her way through the making of her first novel, BABY GRAND.
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Making 'Baby Grand' And I thought giving birth to real babies was hard...

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Making 'Baby Grand' · 23h ago

It’s a Book! ‘Baby Grand’ Available on Amazon Kindle

It’s finally here! My debut novel, Baby Grand, is available on Amazon Kindle for the promotional price of $1.99. It will be available on the Nook and other devices and as a print-on-demand paperback later this year. Right now, I am completely overwhelmed and exhausted and excited and cannot think of
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 1d ago

‘Keep At It’

I’m interviewing Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When The Men Are Gone, for an upcoming installment of Debut Author Q&A as well as for a feature article in Family magazine. While going through the press materials for her book, I came across this gem of advice that Siobhan offers aspiring writers:
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 2d ago

Meet Martin Tracey

Somehow in my freelance writing frenzy – and it HAS been quite the frenzy over the past few weeks – I managed to forget it was Tuesday yesterday until late in the evening – when I was too tired to restart my laptop, which explains today’s appearance of this week’s Debut Author Q&A. Hmmm… Me [...]
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 5d ago

Writing Tip #84

Pick an ending. Any ending. Yesterday, I was finishing a lovely short story that I was really into. Couldn’t wait to find out what happened. And then as I got to the final page, then the final paragraph, and then the final sentence: WHAM. And when I say, WHAM, I mean nothing happened. I was [...]
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 1W ago

Meet Author Rebecca Emin

How coincidental that I’ve spent the entire morning working on a nonfiction book about bullying and today’s featured debut author, Rebecca Emin, has written a young adult novel about the very same topic. It’s like I planned it. And I totally didn’t. Really. Name: Rebecca Emin Name of book: New Begin
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 1W ago

Writing Tip #83

Just when you think you have nothing left — PUSH. Some of my strongest memories of writing Baby Grand involved intense bouts of self-doubt. In graduate school, where I wrote the first third of the manuscript, there was one point where I had completed Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6. My professor asked, “W
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 2W ago

Think of Guest Blog Posts as a Collection of Essays

I’m cranking up the marketing machine for the upcoming launch of Baby Grand this month, and I have already been asked to write several guest blog posts as part of my promotional campaign (thank you!). I take writing guest blog posts very seriously. I treat them as I would any freelance writing assig
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 2W ago

Meet Tom Harris

Today’s featured debut author is Tom Harris, who managed, in a single interview, to reference two of my favorite films (The Usual Suspects, Misery) and probably my all-time favorite board game (Clue). Although I don’t agree with Tom’s feelings on setting daily word counts (I am, after all, all about
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 2W ago

Writing Tip #82

As if. One commonality I’ve found in writing, mostly fiction writing, in recent years is the use of the phrase, “as if.” I’m not talking about Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. I’m talking about how writers use the phrase to help make vivid comparisons in their writing. For example, I just opened up S
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Making 'Baby Grand' · 3W ago

Do You Write Like a Girl?

Recently, a writer-friend, Robyn Bradley, shared an article titled, The 10 Grumpiest Living Writers. Being not much of a grumpy writer myself (if anything, I veer the other way), I was compelled to take a look. It was an interesting list (headed by Jonathan Franzen), but what I found most intriguing
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