Sentences with phrase «several writer friends»

Several writer friends blasted news of my book to their Facebook and Twitter followers, and I thought maybe...

The reason my hubs asked me this question is because I had several writer friends who are indie authors and because I had family pushing me to self publish.

Not exact matches

I have several friends who are writers and they can be quite dry at times.

Lasting Grace: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Brian Doyle Thursday, September 21 All are welcome to a celebration of the life and work of writer and friend Brian Doyle with reflections from David James Duncan, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, and several others.

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

I was invited to participate in a review and discussion of the memoir Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman's Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption with several other open adoption writers / bloggers by my friend and colleague Lori Holden.

Add to that several college friends, all of them wildly successful financially and socially (in corporate - capitalist America, nothing else really matters) and the result looks a lot like the blandly named Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller), a navel - gazing, 47 - turning -55-year-old facing the obligatory mid-life crisis with bitterness, resentment, and self - loathing in writer - director Mike White's (Beatriz at Dinner, Enlightened, Year of the Dog, School of Rock) uneven comedy - drama, Brad's Status.

Over the course of a couple of years, I'd sent copies to several writer - friends, who'd generously read it, spotted typos, and offered helpful suggestions.

As a writer open to both forms of publishing, I have several friends who have gone the «self pub» route mainly out of frustration with the hurdles of traditional publishing.

Several days ago I began thinking about writing an article based on a discussion I had with a dear female writer friend of mine who lives in the US.

And I asked him something on behalf of several authors who have mentioned to me what I call the «friends and family problem»: writers who use associates as early («beta») readers frequently find that people outside the business (who can be your best gauges of a non-publishing crowd's reaction) have trouble with plain MS format.

I'm a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, so many of my friends engage in several minutes of prayer before writing.

Your writer friend was cold - querying agents, which is several huge steps removed from actually being published.

There has been discussion recently among several of my friends from the Fresno SciFi and Fantasy Writers (FSFW) about characters — character development, character - driven vs. plot - driven stories, etc..

Riham Adly also known as Rose among friends, is a mother of two, a dentist and an emerging writer from Egypt with several articles and short stories published in local magazines and websites.

My friend Patrick is a professional writer, and over the last 10 years he's lovingly crafted several special and unusual stories which were eventually included in print - book collections.

Paws knows several cat writers, bloggers, and friends who live in the Hurricane's path, and we look to the powers above to help them, the cats, and all animals affected by this massive weather event.

She has edited several titles including the recently released Dorothy Iannone; You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends, along with It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, Torture of Women by Nancy Spero, and The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard (co-edited with Ron Padgett), among others.

While in Dakar, she was happily accompanied by several African artists and biennial participants, Julie Mehretu, Aida Muluneh and Simone Leigh, as well as her good friend, writer / activist, Binyavanga Wainaina.

This Arizona colleague's dear friend, a writer, had joined my site as a symbiotic «friend,» and she «died several years ago.»