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May.09.2013
I've mentioned the Salt Cay Writers Retreat I'm organizing for October in the Bahamas here before - we've been busy over the past several weeks, and there are a number of items I wanted to share.
After making a site visit to Salt Cay in April with my agent, who is helping to shape the...
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May.01.2013
Manuscript critiques, cocktails for 4 at Folio Literary Management's NYC offices, a scholarship to the Salt Cay Writers Retreat, and more including my offering: signed books and rocks from my research trip to Chaiten Volcano!
Bidding for the Brenda Novak charity auction to benefit...
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Apr.28.2013
Every year, beginning May 1 and continuing through the end of the month, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Author Brenda Novak runs an online auction for diabetes research. The auction takes a full year to plan and pull off, but it’s a labor of love—an effort to help all the people...
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Apr.17.2013
It’s open mike night on the Salt Cay Writers Retreat website! No need to wait until the retreat to share your work. Whether you’re registered or not, send your articles, essays, short stories, and opinion pieces to submissions@saltcaywritersretreat.com, and step up to the mike!
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Apr.02.2013
Every week literary agents receive hundreds of query letters from aspiring writers who are hoping to interest the agent in their project. Why then, would agents take time from their busy schedules to go to a writers conference and meet yet more writers in person?
As co-founder of the...
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Mar.19.2013
If you Google "Salt Cay, Bahamas" and select the satellite map view, off the coast of Nassau you'll see an impossibly tiny green and brown spoon-shaped strip of land in a turquoise sea.
Zoom closer, and coconut palms and white sand beaches appear. Closer still, and you can see the blue roofs of...
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Mar.17.2013
Did you know that William Styron put the finishing touches on Sophie’s Choice while vacationing on Salt Cay, Bahamas? Or that Anne Morrow Lindbergh worked on Gifts From The Sea during a visit to Salt Cay as well?
Now you too can practice your craft on this beautiful private...
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Feb.15.2013
I'm delighted to announce that I have been invited to be the keynote speaker at Michigan's oldest and most respected writers conference, A Rally of Writers, to be held April 13 at the Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The topic of my presentation will be "Writers Helping Writers:...
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Jan.29.2013
Thrilled to see my guest essay on writers keeping the faith despite self-doubt on Psychology Today! Here's an excerpt:
"I’m ten years old. My Big Ben-style alarm clock has stopped working. Maybe I wound it too tightly, maybe it’s just worn out. Whatever the reason, the alarm hasn’t gone off...
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Nov.28.2012
I live in a palace. I say that in all seriousness. It doesn't matter that my modest, three-bedroom brick ranch in Detroit's northern suburbs is surrounded by McMansions so big that in the winter, their snow-covered roofs resemble mountains; I'm acutely aware that for a large percentage of the world...
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Nov.27.2012
The January issue of Writers Digest Magazine with my article on backstory is finally here! You can order the issue online, or pick it up starting today at your favorite bookstore. If you get a chance to read my article, I'd love to know what you think!
"Weaving a Seamless Backstory
Behind...
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Aug.27.2012
In an ocean of self-published titles, two questions surface: How can readers find quality e-books, and how can authors of quality e-books find readers?
Before Amazon’s Kindle changed the face of electronic publishing, in 2006, 51,237 self-published titles were printed as physical books that year,...
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May.31.2012
Hi, everybody!
I'm so excited to let you know that the electronic version of FREEZING POINT will be FREE starting today through Saturday in the Amazon Kindle Store!
I'm hoping you'll help me get the word out on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere else you see fit to let the world know. Tell...
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Mar.29.2012
I’m probably one of the few authors on the planet who enjoys marketing her books. For me, thinking up fresh ways to get the word out about my novels is almost as much fun as creating the story and the characters.
For my first novel, FREEZING POINT, I held an online book launch party that simulated...
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Mar.26.2012
If you're a whiz at creating loglines, you can enter for a chance to win FREE tickets to the Broadway play SEMINAR starring Jeff Goldblum! (And yes, you can win the tickets for someone else!)
Contest details:
“What’s your novel about?” is the question aspiring writers hear over and over again at...
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Fans of the late Michael Crichton will enjoy Dionne's exciting second ecothriller . . . Crisp writing keeps the pace fast, and the tight interweaving of story lines bodes well for this author's future efforts.”
—Publishers Weekly
About Karen
Karen Dionne is the internationally published author of the science thrillers Freezing Point and Boiling Point (Berkley). Her short story, "Calling the Shots," appears in the anthology First Thrills edited by Lee Child. Her next novel, an...
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