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Protagonists and Pandas: An Interview with Leigh Stein, author of The Fallback Plan
by, Lindsay Debach
January 10, 2012

Leigh Stein, author of The Fallback Plan (Melville, 2012), will unashamedly tell you that she’s lived with her parents four times. Her newly-released novel, a coming-of-age about post-college angst, is spliced with details from her own experience and speaks volumes to the plight of so many twenty-something’s undergoing a quarter-life crisis. Stein’s protagonist, Esther, is a recent Northwestern graduate suffering from the post-grad blues. While… [Read More]

Filed Under: author interviews, books for women, Leigh Stein, Melville House, pandas, poems, short stories, The Fallback Plan, writer's block, Writers, writing groups
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The Fiction Writer’s Perspective: Live from the TCPL
by, Danielle Sherwood
October 1, 2011

I’m not a fiction writer. I stick to what I know and what I know is English literature and social media. Yet this past week, I attended a workshop at the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) on writing historical fiction.  On Wednesday night I assisted Jill Swenson, the host and experienced writer, editor and CEO of Swenson Book Development LLC. It was the last meeting… [Read More]

Filed Under: agents, author platforms, changing market, Community, face-to-face interaction, historians, Mavens, Publishers, self-confidence, Social Media, tips and tools, Tompkins County Public Library, virtual interaction, writer's workshops, writing groups, writing historical fiction
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A Writing Group’s Writer
by, Bethany Dixon
September 8, 2011

A Writing Group’s Writer On August 3rd at 6pm, Buffalo Street Books hosted Leslie Daniels for a discussion of her critically acclaimed novel/fictional memoir, Cleaning Nabokov’s House. (For a review of the book on our blog, follow this link. Or, watch the book trailer here.)The discussion was open to the public, and followed suit with the bookstore’s ongoing commitment to Ithaca’s literary community with their… [Read More]

Filed Under: Buffalo Street Books, editing, Katharine Hepburn, Leslie Daniels, Local authors, manuscripts, Publishing, writing groups
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