Tag Archive for ‘C.M. Mayo’
How to Guest Blog (Is This Postmodern, or What?)
In which the intrepid C. M. Mayo (whose recent novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, is not-so-coincidentally out in paperback) explains why guest blogging is a flourishing new literary genre and a powerful tool for promotion, and provides 10 hot tips for coming up with your own guest blog posts. And does it, of course, in a guest blog. Derrida would have a field day. I felt very avant garde back in 2006, when I wrote my first [...]
New Year's Resolution: Write that Book! (12 Great Tips)
Just in time for the new year, the fabulous C. M. Mayo shares her strategies for writing – and finishing – your book: Last spring my latest novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, was published. This was not a go-to-the-cabin-by-the-lake-and-churn-it-out kind of experience. No, my novel is a nearly 500-page historical epic based on extensive original research, every line of prose polished to shine like the lighthouse in Alexandria, with more characters than you could pack into a [...]
Quick Link: National Reading Group Month Panel
From left to right: Rosalind Reisner (co-moderator), C.M. Mayo, Julie Metz, Eva Hoffman, Christina Baker Kline, Roxana Robinson, and Miriam Tuliao (co-moderator). This month I was privileged to be on the Women’s National Book Association panel in celebration of National Reading Group Month. On her lively blog, “A Reader’s Place,” Rosalind Reisner gives the full report. She talks about my new novel, Bird in Hand, as well as recent works by Roxana Robinson (Cost), Eva Hoffman (Apassionata), Julie Metz (Perfection), [...]
Break the Block in Five Minutes
Award-winning writer, translator, and editor C. M. Mayo explains the power of the five-minute exercise: “I don’t have time to write.” Everyone and their uncle who has that bodacious idea for a screenplay, it seems, leans on this one. Do you? I’m a writer, but that doesn’t mean I always have the time I’d like for writing – the big luxurious swaths of peaceful solitude that, as arts colony-goers know, enable a writer to swan through six months of work in a mere week. [...]
