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June 02, 2008
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Last fall, I did an interview with an up-and-coming suspense author named Mike Dellosso. At the time, he was waiting with bated (yes, that’s how it’s spelled) – bated breath to hear whether his novel, The Hunted, was going to be released by Realms. Shortly after that, I was able to congratulate him on a contract successfully negotiated.
In that correspondence, Mike really humanized the later parts of the writing process for me – I mean, I know the part about putting words together nicely. But then there’s the selling part and the public self-presentation part and all that stuff. It finally clicked into my reality that all writers, editors and company managers are just people. I like people. I prefer people who say hi to me first, which Mike did on ShoutLife. But I especially like people who write things that drag me right into the story, which is what Mike’s first chapter did. That was why I interviewed him. He wrote something cool.
When I started hanging around here again this spring, Gina Conroy submitted a post about the Writer…Interrupted community. And she mentioned that Mike Dellosso had been diagnosed with cancer.
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April 17, 2008
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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By Gina Conroy, guest columnist
http://WriterInterrupted.com
Writer…Interrupted was birthed out of my own need to connect with other writing moms. Though I found many wonderful mommy blogs that talked about raising families, none met my unique need of balancing a writing career with raising a family. Soon after I launched the Writer…Interrupted group blog I realized there were other writers, fathers, employees, caregivers, and students who were also interrupted in their writing.
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September 05, 2007
By: Marty
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I don’t usually sign autographs at my shows. I just don’t like it. To me, it is a dead ritual that means nothing. Not because I dislike people but more because I know my own failures, shortcomings and insecurities that find me every day.
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August 08, 2007
By: Marty
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I love Tony Snow.
I don’t care about his politics or what networks he previously worked for, I have always liked Tony Snow.
You’ll need to set aside about a half hour to watch this one on one interview David Gregory of NBC did with him talking not about his politics, the president, the war in Iraq or anything other than his battle with cancer.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and during that time our political leaders would duke it out on the floor of the Senate and in Congress and then when 5 o’clock came they would go have a drink together. There was a courtesy, a common thread that would allow them to not be so personal in attacking one another.
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July 21, 2007
By: Marty
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I have been out of the loop for the last little while but I just heard that Tammy Faye Bakker passed away after her long battle with cancer.
Tammy: Telling It My Way
Think what you may about Bakker, cancer is a horrible disease and nobody deserves to suffer through such pain. I’ve seen it too many times, some of the people I love beating it, others being toyed with by it and others just being crushed by it.
After the PTL scandal and the Jessica Hahn affair, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker divorced.
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