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Of Dresses and Events Coming Up

July 21, 2015 by diannejacob 14 Comments

Omnivore-signing.2010

The 2010 signing of Will Write for Food, 2nd edition, at Omnivore Books in San Francisco. I still have that dress! Now I have to remember not to wear it. (Photo by Heather Luhan)

The third edition of Will Write for Food came out last week, and I’ve been busy with promotion. I love in-person events best because I get to see people in real life versus virtual, and wear dresses. Sometimes friends show up for support, which makes these events even more fun, kind of like parties.

So far my summer book promotion — that all-important six-week window — is going [Read more…] about Of Dresses and Events Coming Up

Filed Under: My workshops and conferences, Personal Stuff Tagged With: Book Passage, Dave Hagerman, Food blogging, food blogging classes, food writing, food writing classes, Omnivore Books, Robyn Ekhardt, The Writing Salon, Will Write For Food

Book Giveaway and 2 Classes Coming Up

January 21, 2014 by diannejacob

Kicking-In-the-Wall“When you hit a wall, kick it in.”

That’s the advice playwright Sam Shepard gave to musician Patti Smith early in her career. She had said to him, “I would go as far as I could and hit a wall, my own imagined limitations” and that was his response.

Sound familiar? This line from Smith’s memoir, Just Kids, inspired author Barbara Abercrombie to write Kicking in the Wall: A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts and Quotes to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals.

Inside are 365 five-minute writing exercises, a great way to jumpstart your writing for the new year. Dip in and pick [Read more…] about Book Giveaway and 2 Classes Coming Up

Filed Under: Contests, Writing Tagged With: Barbara Abercrombie, Food Blog South, Food blogging, food writing, The Writing Salon, writing prompts

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