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This piece appeared in the Martha’s Vineyard Times in April, 2011.
Just when I thought I had a little break coming, I get an email from my agent with that taunting, teasing, termagant of a question: so, what are you thinking of for ‘the next one?’
In the words of Snoopy: arrghhh. Here I was, enjoying a [...]
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This first appeared in The Last Word: 2-24-2011 Martha’s Vineyard Times
I woke up thinking of the nature of reading. This is probably a result of over-indulging in reading over the past few weeks. I have had a little open time while my editor reads the latest version of the new book. During the hour that [...]
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I’ve been very derelict in keeping up with this blog, and for that I will not apologize, simply because if I spend time on this, I’m not spending my limited work time on the new novel. It’s always a balancing act, this need to work and the need to, well, self-promote. Crass, isn’t it? The [...]
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During the past few months I have been slowly dropping all but the most important obligation of my life: finishing the next novel. One of those things dropped—I prefer to think of them as simply put aside—is this blog. And balancing my checking account, writing my monthly column, singing in the local chorus, and being [...]
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This blog first appeared in the Martha’s Vineyard Times
I had the most interesting email conversation with the woman who is doing the Brazilian Portuguese translation of One Good Dog. Professor Regina Lyra emailed me with a question about a reference to the actor Lawrence Olivier and we ‘got talking.’
As she writes: “Translation is, sometimes, [...]
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It is quite a thrill to be invited to blog on the Huffington Post. I wrote this little essay about becoming an accidental advocate of pit bulls. See what you think. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-wilson/how-in-writing-ione-good_b_544784.html
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I was taken to task by two readers for using, what they termed, potty language in ONE GOOD DOG. In both cases, I defended myself by saying that 1) I write for adults and, 2) in order to draw authentic characters, one must write as real people behave. Yes, there is an f-bomb or two, [...]
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I think that it’s finally stopped raining. Watching the news last night makes me feel so lucky, no washed out roads, flooded basements or power outages that I know about here. That seven miles of water that separate us from them also seems to separate us from the disasters that befall other communities, especially those [...]
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Next to the birth of my granddaughter, or that of my own children, the launch of ONE GOOD DOG has been the most exciting thing to happen to me in a long time. I remember being so excited at the launch of BEAUTY in 19whatever, but I can honestly say that OGD has received so [...]
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