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Want to write a novel but you’re not sure where to start? If you’ve dreamed of writing a book but aren’t sure how to make that dream a reality, this essentials workshop may be for you. When: Saturday, June 4, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Where: Scooter’s Coffeehouse, 550 West Crossville Road, Roswell, GA Who:  […]
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I imagine it’s always emotional going back to a place where you spent a healthy portion of your childhood. Especially when you have been away for a long time, and more especially when you have a long, hard history there. That’s how I feel about our family’s (former) farm in rural South Georgia between Pelham and  […]
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In my last Distracted Writer post, I talked about the challenges of having a day job and writing at the same time. Let’s be honest, if you’re a writer with a day job, you probably didn’t need me to tell you how hard it is. Duh. So today I thought I’d try the less-explored angle  […]
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Maybe it’s turning 40 and thinking it’s time I felt more like a grownup. Or maybe it’s skimming through the Instagram feeds of other authors — with their cozy armchair by the fire pictures (you’re killing me, Mary Kay Andrews)…   A photo posted by Mary Kay Andrews (@marykayandrews) on Jan 23, 2016 at 8:41am  […]
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So I was in the car after picking up both boys from school the other day, and we had this conversation: Fozzie (age 4): When I grow up, I’m going to build a laser gate. Me: Awesome, buddy. Like the ones on Star Wars? Skywalker (age 6): Like the ones where they kept Obi-Wan prisoner,  […]
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I talked for a long time last night with a fellow author in another state, one of those great conversations that left me feeling energized and inspired and thinking about my writing career with renewed vigor. There’s not much I love more than a candid, frenzied conversation with another writer. Writers get my special brand  […]
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Don’t you hate this part of the health and fitness cycle? The “I know I’d feel better if I got off my ass and got some exercise but what I really want is to melt into my chair with some caramel popcorn and bourbon” phase. Everyone goes through that, right? For some reason, January is  […]
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For all my Macon/Central Georgia friends, family and readers: please mark your calendars for 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 21st. I’ll be doing an author appearance at the Barnes & Noble on Riverside Drive and signing THE MARRIAGE PACT. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll drop by and say hello! Please also feel  […]
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Sundown tonight begins Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and the time during which we fast in order to “afflict our souls” and try very hard to focus on atoning for our wrongs (rather than counting the minutes until sundown tomorrow when we can eat and drink again). In between Rosh Hashanah  […]
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At the gym the other day, as I wiped my sweaty brow for the twentieth time or so, I thought suddenly of my paternal grandmother. She used to say, “Southern ladies don’t sweat, they glisten.” Yeah, right. She said a lot of crap like that. I think she knew that we knew she was full  […]
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