Lauren Baratz-Logsted - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Myspace BackgroundsMy life is my family, friends and writing. I've published three novels as of the date I signed up here, 6/9/06: The Thin Pink Line, Crossing the Line, A Little Change of Face - all comedies. Before the year is out I'll see four more books published: How Nancy Drew Saved My Life, another comedy; Vertigo, a literary novel set in the Victorian era with erotic and suspense undertones; Angel's Choice, an earnest YA about teen pregnancy; and This Is Chick-Lit, an anthology of which I'm editor as well as contributor, the anthology also including Deanna Carlyle, Jennifer Coburn, Johanna Edwards, Karin Gillespie, Raelynn Hillhouse, Andrea Schicke Hirsch, Julie Kenner, Harley Jane Kozak, Stephanie Lehmann, Caren Lissner, Cara Lockwood, Ariella Papa, Kayla Perrin, Rachel Pine, Gena Showalter, Karen Siplin, and Heather Swain. I also have an essay in the Jane Austen anthology Flirting with Pride & Prejudice and a short story I co-wrote with my husband in the forthcoming Literary Cash, all about Johnny Cash.Before being published as a novelist, I was an independent bookseller for 11 years, a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, a freelance editor, a sort-of librarian and a window washer....

My Interests

Reading, writing, shooting pool. ...test

I'd like to meet:

Writers, readers and nice people as opposed to nasty ones....

Music:

Warren Zevon and Frank Sinatra, not necessarily at the same time. ...

Movies:

The Piano, My Best Friend's Wedding, Shakespeare in Love......

Television:

Friends, Rescue Me, Entourage, Six Feet Under, American Idol, The Daily Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, General Hospital....

Books:

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My Blog

Valedictory

One of my favorite scenes in VERTIGO is the one where Emma and Chance are ice skating. Near the end, after Chance says he must leave, Emma tells the reader, "I should have liked to have stopped him, b...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:13:00 PST

Greek passion

The nice thing about having a blog, as opposed to a column, is that you basically can write about anything you want to, in any way you want to, without any editorial gatekeepers. That's how we end up ...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:30:00 PST

"Try acting...it’s easier"

Before we get started, for anyone who's interested, here's a link to a post I did yesterday over at The Nervous Breakdown about Ted Kennedy, JFK, Ted Sorensen's recent memoir COUNSELOR, and the futili...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 30 May 2008 07:43:00 PST

Which God or Goddess Are You?

This, along with "Which Deadly Sin Are You?", is one of my favorite games. It's also a good way to stay in touch with all of you on a day I don't have time to create a longer, brilliant post here. To ...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 23 May 2008 05:59:00 PST

Need vs. Want

Before we get started, my friend Linda Gerber is celebrating the launch of her new book DEATH BY BIKINI this week by having a bunch of us guestblog each day with accompanying book giveaways. The page ...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:48:00 PST

Resilience & Showing Up Every Day

Before we get started, an announcement: Next week, May 13-15, I'll be doing a Q&A on BookBalloon where I'll be taking questions on the craft and business of writing. BookBalloon is a wonderful sit...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 09 May 2008 06:55:00 PST

Reinventing My Wheel

Before we get started, here's a link to a post I did over at The Nervous Breakdown two days ago upon the death of my 103-year-old grandfather-in-law: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/lauren_baratz_l...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:42:00 PST

Whinges, Limbo & Glories, Part III of III

I did promise last week that no matter what was going on, we'd talk about glories this week, so that's what we're going to do, even if it kills us. But before we get started I feel compelled to point ...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:08:00 PST

Whinges, Limbo, and Glories, Part II of III

Well, this is a fine how do you do. Last week, I claimed the post was Part I of II, the first on whinges, the second on glories, and here I decide to throw a third spanner into the works. So sue me. B...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:14:00 PST

Whinges & Glories, Part I of II

Writing, and life, comes with its share of whinge-worthy things (def: whinge = whine in Brit-speak) as well as its glorious moments. So this week we'll all have a whingefest and commiserate over our f...
Posted by Lauren Baratz-Logsted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:28:00 PST