Tag: authors
group name: books
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March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true.
It's a little less lonely for . . .
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June 06, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
GETTING PUBLISHED: 7 Things to Remember
Hi All,
I’m an author with 2 published books and a third one coming out this summer with HarperCollins titled, WHEN PARENTS HURT: Compassionate Strategies . . .
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November 12, 2008 09:03 AM EST --
And if you have a book, yourself (all Gather authors stand up and be counted), list your book here in this thread (and tell us a bit about it) ...
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February 04, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
This is going to be a GREAT month for reading. I just know it. Why? Because later this month my 'significantly other' and I are going away for a four-day weekend, and all we plan to do is . . .
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June 17, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Time was when you could go to Paris, or London, or Rome and bring back something really French, or English, or Italian. You still can, but it's getting harder. These days, people all over the globe . . .
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November 08, 2008 06:12 PM EST --
I have always had a desire to know about the various religions of the world. Even as a teen, I had questions that I was actively seeking answers too.My Senior year in high school, I did my term . . .
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July 11, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
Do I Need a Literary Agent? Two Words: Hell Yeah.
The definitive way to separate oneself from being 'a waiter who writes on the side' to 'a published writer' is to land an agent . . .
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September 30, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
The Things That I Learned From My 14 Ounce Daughter
I always considered myself to be quite fortunate. At 35 years of age I was on the faculty at a major medical school and on the fast track for . . .
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July 16, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
I need to find some good fantasy books to read. I'm running low. The Wheel of Time series is out for me though, couldn't get into those. I've read George RR Martin, Neil Gaiman, . . .
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March 22, 2009 09:27 PM EDT --
Having studied and taught Beowulf many times, I found a version that was so wonderful, that I read it and listen to it over and over again. Seamus Heaney inspired me to undertake my own partial . . .
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May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . .
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July 02, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Happily, I'm about to embark on yet another reading retreat. This time it's a week in Door County, with nothing on the agenda except for biking, reading and napping. I've got a stack of books . . .
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October 12, 2007 03:54 PM EDT --
In July 2002 I merged my last company. I say last instead of most recent or current because that’s what it felt like. I was a serial entrepreneur. I’d been building companies since 1981 and . . .
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May 27, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Last year I went to Book Expo America and carried home fifty pounds of advance copies that I read and reviewed from July to December. It was a really fun experience to consume the Fall Big Books before . . .
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June 26, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
Want to become a book reviewer? Bright Ideas by Bestselling Authors is offering free copies of upcoming books to members interested in writing book reviews!
Request a copy by sending a message . . .
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November 21, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
Join us here for a live chat, Monday 11/24 from 11:30AM to noon ET with Nina Burleigh, author of the book, Unholy Business , one of our featured titles this month in Bright Ideas from Bestselling . . .
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September 18, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
When I got my advance copy of Terry Shaw’s novel The Way Life Should Be, winner of Gather.com’s First Chapter Writing Competition, I started to read it with some trepidation and many reservations. . . .
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April 07, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
When SportsCenter was the "Big Show", Keith Olbermann used to clamor on and on about baseball players from different eras and how Nap Lajoie and Honus Wagner were the greatest there ever were--their . . .
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January 26, 2008 11:50 AM EST --
I've been on Gather.com for some months now. Some of you may know that I work part-time as a professional book reviewer. What you don't know is why you may not recognize the authors . . .
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March 10, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of Donald McCaig? He raises sheep and trains sheepdogs in rural Highland County, Virginia. At long intervals, five or six years apart, he will turn out a finely crafted historical . . .
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