Tag Archive for ‘Christina Baker Kline’
Quick Link: My Ten-Year Overnight Success
As someone who loves to read other people’s personal essays but has a hard time being so candid herself, I am kind of proud of myself for writing an honest piece for SHE WRITES, a new social networking site for writers, on the long journey to publication for Bird in Hand. SHE WRITES is a place where, as founding editor Kamy Wicoff explains, “women writers working in every genre — in every part of the world and of all ages [...]
Publication Day for Bird in Hand
Publication Day, I’ve learned over the years, is an elusive concept. You imagine that something momentous will happen — after all, the date has been printed in catalogs and announced on amazon.com; it seems significant. You think of other important events in your life: college graduation, your wedding day, the birth of your first child. Things actually happened on those days. You were awarded an official degree in front of several thousand people, you suddenly found yourself yoked for life [...]
Bird Days of August
August 11th is the official release date of my new novel, Bird in Hand. Over the several weeks I’ll be telling the inside story of how and when and why I wrote this book, and how it ended up getting published. I’ll also post links to other blogs and websites with my guest posts and interviews. I hope that learning about my process will inspire you with your own work!
Exclusive Sneak Peek* of My New Novel, Bird in Hand (Part 2)
In anticipation of the release in exactly a week of Bird in Hand, I am posting the prologue. Yesterday was Part 1; this is Part 2. Sorry, you have to go back, but I’ll make it easy for you. (*My publicist made me say that. He also made me promise to point out that if this excerpt intrigues you, the book is available for pre-order at indie.org and amazon.com.) Bird in Hand (Prologue, Part 2) “Do we need a lawyer?” [...]
Exclusive Sneak Peek* at My New Novel, Bird in Hand
Over the next two days, in anticipation of the release in exactly a week of Bird in Hand, I am posting the prologue in two parts. (*My publicist made me say that. He also made me promise to point out that if this excerpt intrigues you, the book is available for pre-order at indie.org and amazon.com.) Bird in Hand For Alison, these things will always be connected: the moment that cleaved her life into two sections and the dawning realization [...]
Settling In
Our dog, Lucy, does it every morning. She roams around trying to get a feel for whether anyone will be at home, and in which rooms. She tries out one spot – splayed on the hall landing, a watchful eye toward the front door – but soon abandons it for another. She jumps on an unmade bed and turns around three times, sinks down, curls into a ball. After a while she stretches out long, her belly as rounded and [...]
