Marketing Panel |
Richard Taylor, from the Charlotte Writers' Club, has just emailed me a few of the questions he plans to ask when I'm on a panel discussing marketing and promotion--my least favorite part of being a w...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:36:00 GMT |
Interview up at She Reads Books |
Here's an interview with yours truly about writing, motherhood, faith, and life--
http://shereadsbooks.wordpress.com/
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:41:00 GMT |
Springtime on Mars Review and Giveaway |
A review of Springtime on Mars just went up at Books on the Brain:
http://lisamm.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/review-and-giveaway-s pringtime-on-mars-by-susan-woodring/
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Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:43:00 GMT |
Mountain Xpress Review |
My favorite part of the review:
A single, awkward moment arrived at through a maze of mundane events and non-events. Nothing is happening but ordinary life, only Woodring gazes deeply into all that's...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:55:00 GMT |
More on Subtext--an Example from Amy Hempel |
In the story, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried." Amy Hempel works against the reader's expectations. The story is about the narrator's sitting at her friend's deathbed and instead ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:48:00 GMT |
Truth and Sacrifice: For Mothers Day |
When I was a child, I wanted to buy a new mother at Sears. I can clearly remember gazing up at those stiff mannequins and their calm, plastic faces, their elegant hands turned out just so at the wrist...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:41:00 GMT |
Using Odd Facts to Build Subtext--An Example from Jenny Offill |
Try this: Bring out the odd fact, the scientific anomaly, the seemingly dispensable little-known-fact. Bring it out when you're trudging through yet another stale encounter between a man and a woman c...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 16:04:00 GMT |
Truth and the Christian Writer |
Several months after the publication of my first book, I received an email from a Christian friend disparaging my book as not being Christian enough. At first, I was deeply hurt and angry. I was also,...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
UFOs and Buddy Holly |
Saturday is the day! Press 53 and I are launching my new short story collection, Springtime on Mars. As the title suggests, there's a good amount of space imagery in the book, and beyond that, many of...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:57:00 GMT |
What Your Characters Cant Tell You |
My growing up was marked by periodic road trips to my parents’ hometowns in central Illinois. They were both raised in small farming towns, and the ways of their childhoods have always been gre...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:09:00 GMT |
