"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Georgia Ann Mullen on April 8, 2012 |
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Last summer I took a combined research/pleasure trip to Maysville and Louisville, KY. I learned so much and had to get right down to fixing parts of my story that didn’t jibe with history. I may be writing fiction, but I want the historical parts to be as accurate as possible.
I was...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on February 25, 2012 |
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The hardest part of being an author, for me, is promoting my books. Writing them is challenging, exhilarating, exhausting, brain-draining, but in a good way. Writing is fun! Promoting is thorny.
Publicizing through social media—capitalizing on networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.—...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on February 20, 2012 |
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I’ve read two books by Stephen King: Christine, a novel about a jealous Plymouth Fury, and On Writing, King’s combination memoir/teaching text. I read Christine because my husband had it in the house. On Writing came into my hands because writers I admire claim it’s “the best book on...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on January 20, 2012 |
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Don’t Sabotage Your Submission by Chris Roerden is the most informative, helpful book I’ve read about writing. A revamping of the award-winning Don’t Murder Your Mystery, the book offers 230 positive examples of effective techniques to save your manuscript from turning up dead on arrival....
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Georgia Ann Mullen on December 30, 2011 |
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Next to writing every day, I count constructive feedback from fellow writers most beneficial to my writing career. I belong to two groups. They meet on the same day, for two hours each, on the first and third Wednesdays of the month: one in the morning; one in the afternoon. Since we all live and...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on May 19, 2011 |
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Ideas for my historical novels grew out of my employment as a journalist–or, more exactly, from the places my job as magazine writer and editor took me.
One of those places was Seneca Falls, NY, where I traveled to write a town profile for a regional magazine. I toured Elizabeth Cady...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on February 8, 2011 |
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Let me introduce you to the real Wixumlee.
Readers often ask how I came up with this unusual name for a character in my second historical novel, Wixumlee Is My Salvation. I say I heard it while working as a magazine editor 15 years ago.
So, imagine my surprise when a woman named Wixumlee sent me...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on November 24, 2010 |
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To me, characterization is more important than plot.
With three protagonists I strive to make them not only different physically but also emphasize their cultural differences. Each one comes from a singular economic background which reflects her speech, manner of dress, education, facial...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on March 16, 2010 |
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The ball begins to roll. I received the first proof of the cover for Wixumlee Is My Salvation yesterday.
This cover will be quite a surprise to my readers, since it is very different from A Shocking & Unnatural Incident. And that’s fitting because Wixumlee is a very different book. It...
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