Required Reading: Interview with New Hampshire Novelist Ernest Hebert (and a giveaway of Never Back Down!)

Posted & filed under Contest, Getting Published, Interview, Writing.

Today, I’m thrilled and honored to welcome Ernest Hebert to the blog! Not only is he the author of several wonderful New-England-set novels–The Old American and The Dogs of March are two of my favorites–but he’s a professor of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. (Yup, that’s where I went to school. Yup, he… Never Back Down!)”>Read more »

Interview-mania!

Posted & filed under Getting Published, Gladys Gatsby, Interview, Submission.

Hello, folks! Just a quick post to say that you can find me over at Mindy McGinnis’s blog today, sharing a bit about the experience of going “on submission” to editors and coming out the other end with a book deal for Gladys Gatsby. Here’s the link: Debut Submission Experience with World Traveler Tara Dairman… Read more »

May Days

Posted & filed under Fun, Interview, Travel.

It’s been a busy few weeks. Let’s play catch-up! I now have an author page on Facebook. Unlike on this blog, I actually post there in a timely manner about writerly things that are going on in my life (like interviews or Gladys book news), so if you’d rather find out about that stuff as… Read more »

The adventure continues!

Posted & filed under Contest, Fun.

So, two things are happening today. First of all, it’s my debut blog post over at EMU’s Debuts, which is a group blog featuring first-time authors represented by my agency, Erin Murphy Lit. If you’re at all curious about what goes on between the moment you sell your book and the moment it hits the… Read more »