Blog Profile / Backstory
| URL : | http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/backstory/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Writing | |
| Posts on Regator: | 58 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.2 | |
| Archived Since: | April 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The NYT is Nothing Compared to Oprah
If the rumor is true (and Publisher's Lunch just sent out this photograph that came from booksellers)... then... brilliant book and brilliant book club pick or not... Since Jan 2005, Oprah has picked 14 books for her club All...
Backstory is moving
Backstory where authors share the- secrets, truths, logical and illogical moments that sparked thier fiction or memoirs is moving to Likefire - a great blog for readers. If you have written a novel or memoirs tell us about your inspiration....
The internet is killing storytelling
Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing. via www.timesonline.co.uk I'm...
Therese Walsh's Backstory
A Sweet, No-Bake Tale of Success You are a lover of words. One day, you will write a book. That fortune, cracked free of a cookie after eating my favorite Chinese meal of chicken and broccoli (extra spicy), resonated with...
Anna Elliott's Backstory
For me to say that the idea for my novel Twilight of Avalon came to me in a dream seems almost too fantastic a story to be believed. But it really is true, and it happened this way: It was...
Emily Listfield's Backstory
My upcoming novel, BEST INTENTIONS built on this kernel of an idea: What happens when you think you know what the person you love is thinking – and you’re dead wrong? I think we’ve all experienced this in various relationships...
Lynne Reeves Griffin's Backstory
I began writing fiction in 2000. I needed an outlet for my thoughts and feelings following the death of my mother. At the time, I was overwhelmed with emotion and my work counseling parents was very intense. I was writing...
Elizabeth Flock's Backstory
The X Factor or Why I Wrote SLEEPWALKING IN DAYLIGHT I had it easy. Here’s how I came to write my new novel, SLEEPWALKING IN DAYLIGHT. All I had to do was surreptitiously take notes when my drunken friends shared...
Monica Carter's Backstory
I've always considered myself more spiritual than religious, so it's somewhat interesting that I've found myself in a Christian fiction book contract. I didn't really set out to write Christian fiction -- when I started, I didn't even know the...
Pam Jenoff's Backstory
Almost Home is the culmination of a vision I've had for more than a decade. The idea arose when I was still living in Europe in the mid-nineties. I was traveling through Spain with two friends, one Polish and one...
A.S. King's Backstory
In the late 17th century, famed pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with the dust of 100 dogs, dooming her to...
Sung Woo's Backstory
Back in 1981, when I was ten years old, my life had become a foreign-language film without subtitles. Everywhere I went, people spoke English, which was a problem because all I knew was Korean. My mother, my two sisters, and...
Roger Smith's Backstory
One day in June 1976, when I was sixteen, I was riding on a bus in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, watching as a few thousand black school kids my age smashed store windows and torched cars. Watching as a lot...
THE DOCTOR IS IN
FORCING ITA writer friend, "Paula," recently confided that she is seriously blocked for the first time in her adult life. "I have a lazy streak," she said, "so sometimes I resist writing that I know I want to do. But...
Patrick Somerville's Backstory
In the summer of 2007, I drove east from Chicago to Virginia on my way to a month-long residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where I planned to work on…something. I 'd made a few false starts...
David Cristofano's Backstory
I have always been drawn to books and movies that deal with the concept of identity. Certainly, there have been countless excellent stories of individuals finding themselves, but what has grown to capture my attention are those accounts concerning the...
Paul Harris' Backstory
WHEN I finally started to seriously write my novel I followed an oldfashioned dictum: write what you know. But what I knew was at firstextremely difficult for me to put down in print. I had just returned to Britain after four...
Michael Shilling's Backstory
Rock Bottom is about a rock band called Blood Orphans, more pretty than talented, and at the tight end of the career noose. It takes place in Amsterdam in one day, and is mainly concerned with all the tawdry sorrows...
CJ West's Backstory
One summer I wrote a scene that perfectly linked two of my books together. It had sex, murder and high stakes neatly wrapped up in about seven pages. I never expected to publish that first chapter because it was too...
Jamie Ford’s Backstory
On a foggy February morning in 1983, fourteen people were gunned down at the Wah Mee club in Maynard Alley, just shy of South King Street in Seattle's Chinatown. It was the worst mass-murder in Washington State history. The Wah...