Tag: the scent of god
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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April 29, 2006 02:15 PM EDT --
I'd love to be surrounded by warm and caring Gatherers when I go on tour to read and sign books in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, so, if you live nearby or have relatives and/or friends . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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May 15, 2006 11:51 PM EDT --
In my last post, the cat returned safely home just prior to my departure for Boston. I mentioned that she was very, very cold, but I don't think I said that she was so traumatized by her . . .
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April 19, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of The Scent of God, I am offering a free signed copy to each of 10 lucky winners. All you have to do is share your feelings about the book jacket after . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
If you've been reading my posts for a while, you'll know that I've been awaiting a "writer's dream." No. It's not making the NY Times best seller list. This dream concerns . . .
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November 29, 2005 01:20 PM EST --
Ellie, our fat cat, sits patiently in the kitchen next to her empty bowl. She demolished four ounces of canned cat food earlier this morning. She wonders why her bowl is empty.
She looks at us, then down . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:24 PM EDT --
In my last post, I was in Boston, heading back from a great visit at the Gather.com headquarters to the Inn at Harvard to prepare for my reading that night at the Harvard Coop.
Almost 50 years ago, . . .
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June 06, 2006 06:50 PM EDT --
I have received a number of messages from Gatherers wondering how best to get published and find agents and have attempted to answer each request as thoroughly as possible.
Today I received my free monthly . . .
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June 10, 2006 02:15 PM EDT --
Today is one of those totally blow-your-mind beautiful days on the North Shore – the sky blue, blue without a cloud, the sun's rays striking Lake Superior with such force that the light seems . . .
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February 09, 2006 03:41 PM EST --
On February 14, I head to New York from the North Shore of Lake Superior to meet my publisher/editor Liz Maguire and the marketing and publicity staff at Counterpoint, the literary imprint of Perseus Press. . . .
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May 05, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
In my last post, I mentioned how helpful it can be to do local readings and interviews first -- before you go on tour with your book.
While I've been doing these local readings and . . .
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May 08, 2006 05:06 PM EDT --
In my last post I was developing " warped hand and eye syndrome" as I sent hundreds of postcards to people living in or near the places I will be reading and signing my book, The Scent of God . . .
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June 28, 2006 09:53 PM EDT --
Gosh it's been great to get back to Gather, even if for a brief dip. Hungry to catch up between publication readings and interivews, I've been trying to read at least one piece of all . . .
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March 22, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I heard about Professor Philip De Wolfe before I met him. The year was 1987 and what I heard was to change the direction my life would take from then on. I have Gloria to thank.
Gloria and I . . .
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May 12, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Friday, May 11: The second stop on my book tour takes us to beloved Gather blogger Kathryn Esplin Oleski. I first met Kathryn on Gather in its very early days when there were only several hundred of us . . .
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July 04, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
"Get thee to a monastery!" -- does anyone know the actual source of this quote? -- there are thousands of articles with that quotation but none I can find that attribute the quote to its . . .
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November 19, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
When my hubby Bill surprised me with tickets to Italy to celebrate our 12 wedding anniversary and suggested that I plan the trip as I “knew Italy,” I thought “Oh my! Did I still “know” Italy 30 years . . .
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May 31, 2006 07:24 AM EDT --
The Minneapolis leg of the publication tour for my book, The Scent of God, went swimmingly. The interview with Pat Miles and Susie Jones on WCCO so pleased my publicist at Counterpoint in New . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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April 15, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Travel, Grieving, the Writing Life, Book Reviews, Fictions, Random Musings, all my posts are here for your convenience, especially when the pull-down menus don't work. Please let me know if a link doesn't . . .
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