Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie’s Brand New Piano

by John Lacey on June 1, 2010

I’m sure Sophie is being more than a little tongue-in-cheek here, but who hasn’t at least once stumbled at a creative challenge thinking “What will they think of me if I do this?”

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Do Authors Frequent Secondhand Bookstores?

by John Lacey on November 2, 2009

After completing my first 2047 words of NaNoWriMo yesterday, I headed off to a local book fete (a fundraiser for a rural firefighter service). I scanned all the titles haphazardly scattered across tables. There was a piece of non-fiction among the ‘fifty cent novels.’ Sections bled into each other. I noticed another fifty cent novel from a very prolific and successful Australian author (who I know is on Twitter). And in light of this and NaNoWriMo, a new thought occurred to me…

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I spent much of the afternoon writing and remembering, as part of the Heartbroken and Grieving project. It surprised me how vividly certain memories came flooding back. This paragraph from a blog entry from Sophie B. Hawkins seems particularly fitting.

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