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LITPARK is a literary playground for writers founded by author Susan Henderson. A place to laugh, vent, support, inspire, and share helpful tips about the business. Every first Monday will feature a Question of the Month (involving everything from obsessions to rejection letters), and readers are encouraged to answer the question on the comment boards and become a part of the LitPark community. Otherwise please feel free to lurk and read the array of enlightening interviews with literary agents, publicists, editors, artists, musicians, journalists, and writers such as Neil Gaiman, Susan Straight, Daniel Handler, and Barry Eisler. Thanks for reading!
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Who Owns Our Truths?
Susan Henderson started LitPark in 2006 with the goal of building a supportive community for writers. She asked monthly questions intended to bond and inspire writers with storytelling. She interviewed writers from the unknown to the debut to Neil Gaiman and Lemony Snicket. But what she didn’t realize she was doing was chronicling the ups and downs of writing and submitting her novel, THE RUBY CUP, which will be published by Harper Collins in September 2010. Follow the peaks and valleys of that process—the writer’s block, the false hope, the face-on-the-floor depression, and the hard work of creating a novel. She hopes this is helpful, especially to those of you in the face-on-the-floor stage. You may be closer than you think!
So here is The Evolution of the Book and a conversation about the backlash for writers who tell hard truths.
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Who Owns Our Truths?
Safe writing or hard truths? The better writers choose the latter, but there are consequences.
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Career Day
A set of parents are invited to the elementary school for career day. One's a costume designer, the other a writer. Which one impresses the kids?
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Holocaust Survivor, Pierre Berg
Holocaust survivor, Pierre Berg, talks about his experience at Auschwitz and his difficulty in finding a publisher for his memoir.
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Temporary Ecstasy: The First Book Deal
This is the story of a book deal that happened without an agent, and this is not a book deal that will last. The temporary feelings of ecstasy, however, are real.
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Introverts at the Microphone
Most writers are shy. Many are hermits. So how much fun is it to tell a writer to read their work into a microphone?
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Pummeling Ourselves
Close calls that end in rejection and other debilitating and demoralizing times for writers.
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Attica Locke
Author and screenwriter, Attica Locke, talks about her debut novel, and the many projects that never saw the light of day.
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When Patience Is Required
For writers, especially those not inherently patient, struggling in a field that seems to be all about waiting.
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