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The Evening After the End of Days: Everyday Magic, Day 661

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 21, 20122 min read

change

The Evening After the End of Days: Everyday Magic, Day 661

Natalie and I celebrate the end of the world with matching pajamas that kind of match our kitty too Although I know the Mayans didn’t...

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 11, 20122 min read

arts

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 20121 min read

Kansas

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 1, 20122 min read

Travel

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...

“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 23, 20122 min read

Writing Life

“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor

One of my mother’s friends apologized to her for how I treated her as a teenager after reading The Divorce Girl. “It’s fiction,” my...

A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 27, 20124 min read

Writing Life

A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605

People outside the book biz often have a notion that once the book comes out, your big work is done, but for most of us who write or...

Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 15, 20122 min read

Magic

Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My

I know it’s ludicrous to experience a book launch as a marriage, but I couldn’t help the strange overflow from my subconscious, and...

The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 11, 20121 min read

Writing Life

The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597

Why the books were delivered to a tree rather than to our porch dates back to early spring when the UPS guy told us he wouldn’t go up our...

Final, Final, Final Edits On a Book I’ve Been Writing for 16 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 523

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 22, 20122 min read

Writing Life

Final, Final, Final Edits On a Book I’ve Been Writing for 16 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 523

The lure and pressure of the final, final, final edits run in overdrive for me because of how many years I’ve been writing this novel. I...

Hunting for Blurbs: Everyday Magic, Day 479

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 10, 20122 min read

Writing Life

Hunting for Blurbs: Everyday Magic, Day 479

“Will you blurb my book?” Any writer will recognize the charge of those necessary words as we approach the famous and more-famous to ask...

Sending the Book to the Publisher for Design: Everyday Magic, Day 446

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 22, 20112 min read

Writing Life

Sending the Book to the Publisher for Design: Everyday Magic, Day 446

I just hit the “send” button on the email to my publisher, releasing into the wilds between my novel after 16 years of writing and...

Letting Go Of My (Divorce) Girl: Everyday Magic, Day 372

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 21, 20112 min read

Writing Life

Letting Go Of My (Divorce) Girl: Everyday Magic, Day 372

Me a few years before I began writing this book in my head Today I finished my final revision on my novel, The Divorce Girl, which is...

The Novel is FINALLY Being Published!: Everyday Magic, Day 196

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 31, 20112 min read

Growing Up

The Novel is FINALLY Being Published!: Everyday Magic, Day 196

How many years have I been writing The Divorce Girl? On paper since Forest was a creeping critter (now he’s a giant), and in my head for...

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