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This week’s edition of Orthodox Women Talk visits Melissa Amster’s blog
Would you like to hear the perspectives of seven different female Jewish bloggers about haircovering? Melissa Amster, the Merryland Girl, is hosting Orthodox Women Talk today, and we’ve got plenty...
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Sending my first newsletter out in a while…
Excuse me for my delinquency… I used to be really good at sending out newsletters to remind readers when I had a story that ran online or in magazines, for those people who didn’t want to read all my...
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My OCD confession in Tablet and more resources about OCD
Tablet’s running my essay about the weirdest thing that happened to me due to my OCD, which is so freaky that it’s taken years for me to write about. The only reason I finally did so was because I’ve...
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Results of an experiment: finding beta readers online from among fans vs...
A couple weeks back, I sent out a very short story I’d written a few days earlier to people who had signed up for my newsletter (you can sign up for that newsletter on my welcome page). I wanted some...
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My review of Letters from Mir and the wonders of primary sources
Last week, The Jewish Home L.A. ran my review of the new book, Letters From Mir. Of the books I’ve reviewed professionally in the last couple months, it was the one that surprised me most, on more than...
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How attached are you to your dreams?
Taking feedback and running with it I’m still thinking about the story that I mentioned in a post earlier this week, the one that I ran by the beta-testers that I’d acquired through my newsletter. On...
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Approaching the runway for landing: Winding up my serial with excitement and...
So, if all goes as planned, I will — G-d willing! — finish my serial (again…but that’s a whole ‘nother story) by the end of next week. I’m a little freaked out about re-reading the whole serial after...
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Find my new reviews for Bina Lobell’s Super Secret Diary and Not for Sale in...
My reviews of Bina Lobell’s Super Secret Diary by Ruchama Feuerman and Not for Sale by Bracha Rosman are on page 16 of the most recent edition of The Jewish Home L.A. You can find those reviews here.
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My love affair with a book: Alan Morinis’s Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
My latest book crush is on Alan Morinis’s Climbing Jacob’s Ladder. If you are a bibliophile, you’ll know what I mean: It’s that feeling you get when you finish a book and all you want to do is buy 5...
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Orthodox Women Talk: Roundtable about media consumption
Hi, everyone! I know I pretty much never post twice in a day, but I’m hosting this month’s Orthodox Women Talk. Our panelists include: Tali Simon Melissa Amster Ruchi Koval Rivki Silver Keshet Starr...
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Long time, no write
You might have noticed that I haven’t published anything in about three weeks. There are reasons for that. Life is complicated. Sometimes that adds spice to my writing. And sometimes it pretty much...
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Jewish Fiction Editors Speak Out | A Cyber Roundtable
beccakinla:The Whole Megillah posted this extremely useful piece today, one that should be essential reading by writers of Jewish literature for the mainstream (meaning not-exclusively-Orthodox)...
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Posted by Anonymous
Okay, this is really not being posted by Anonymous. It’s plain ole me. Writers live in the same world as the rest of you, which means we have to live with the people who read our work. Yesterday Hevria...
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Journaling exercise: confronting whatever is keeping you from writing, in...
So, as I mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve got some personal issues going on at the moment that held up my writing for a while. Basically, I wrote no new fiction for three weeks, and very little of...
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Too busy prepping for Passover to write a full post, but…
Here’s my new story, “Mick Revises a Love Story” in JewishFiction.Net’s new issue, out today. It’s a subversion of the classic Western love story, which I just think is bonk. Wanna read it? Just click...
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Pesach Limericks for Maggid (because I need a break from my kitchen right now)
beccakinla:An oldie-but-goody. And I’d love to hear some limericks by my readers…just post in the comments. Originally posted on Rebecca Klempner: On the way outta there! Many of us have memories of...
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Need a little reading material for the intermediate days of Passover?
Check out my new short story, available to read online The Jewish Press published my magic realism (laced with sci fi) short “An Old Fashioned Girl” a couple weeks ago in its Olam Yehudi supplement....
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I’m baaaaack…
I’m still not entirely back into my writing schedule, but Passover is over, and the kids are back in school. Returning to writing after a yom tov is always a bit sketchy, but Passover is the worst. The...
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It’s the week of Shavuos!
beccakinla:I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been working on several larger writing projects. I’m very excited about them, but I can’t talk about them yet! However, I thought readers...
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Why Endings So Often Disappoint Readers
I’ve posted about the difficulty of nailing an ending before. More than once, I’ve had to completely abandon the conclusion of my rough draft and write an entirely new ending. When I said in the title...
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