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Another Writers on Writing Interview

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

KUCI Writers on Writing interview, October 28, 2009: KUCI Interview October 28, 2009 This is the second half; you’ll need to FF past the break music.

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Interview with KUCI “Writers on Writing”

Friday, February 13, 2009

“Writers on Writing” on KUCI is an excellent regular program, on which many great writers–Tobias Wolff, for example–have been interviewed at length. There’s a regular podcast to which you can subscribe for free. If you’re interested, check out their schedule: http://www.kuci.org/schedule.shtml The interviewers are sharp: they’ve actually read the books and they ask great questions. [...]

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A New Time-Wasting Game

Saturday, January 3, 2009

is waiting for players.  Click on the link to the right entitled The Agony of the Feet.  If you don’t remember what “dactylic” means, look it up.

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Coming Soon: Online Fiction Workshop from the Author of The Writing Class

Monday, December 15, 2008

I’m seriously thinking of starting up an online fiction workshop in January 2009.   Plans so far: 1.  Submissions will be fiction only–prose, not poetry. 2.  Submissions will include short stories, novel chapters, fragments of longer works. 3.  Right now, I’m not planning to screen for level of sophistication, experience, talent, etc.  Come one, come all.  [...]

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The Onion Does It Again

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Just as theirs was the most appropriate response to 9/11 (sadly, no trace of that brilliant headline remains on the web), they wrote the best 11/4 headline (and article): http://www.theonion.com/content/news/kobe_bryant_scores_25_in_holy_shit

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My First Name

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

is not my exclusive property, but over the course of six decades one gets used to being the only Jincy.  The name is apparently Southern in origin, and was at one time a nickname for both Virginia and Jane, which nickname never caught fire, and so faded from use.  I am the Last of My [...]

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Interview with ABC Radio

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

  That’s the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the interview took place on August 13, 2008.  Here’s the transcript: Peter Mares: The Writing Class is a piece of darkly comic crime fiction. The hero, Amy Gallup, had early success as a novelist but in recent years her words have dried up. She now ekes out a [...]

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Uncollected Story Up at 5 Chapters.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

“Medea in the Garden” is ready for reading, in installments, at http://www.fivechapters.com/medea_in_the_garden/part_one_93.php

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Cultural Notes from All Over

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

From the North County Times Books Calendar for June 1:  – At The Book Works, Flower Hill Promenade, 2670 Via de la Valle, Suite A230, Del Mar, (858) 755-3735: Shawn Tomson will sign and discuss “Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life” at 7 p.m. Thursday. Jincy Willett will discuss and sign “The Writing [...]

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Dennis Cass Explains it All For You

Thursday, May 15, 2008

And good for him, too.  A must-see for everyone who dreams of someday getting published. Book Launch 2.0 on YouTube      

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