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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 2, 20122 min read
Riding in a Convertible With Books: Everyday Magic, Day 654
I’ve adopted an attitude of trying to love whatever the readings might bring, even if it’s mostly the sound of my own voice reading a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20122 min read
Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625
Julie (third from right); her daughters Rebecca (left) with Dina’s baby, and Dina (right); Dina’s other mom Louise (to left of Julie),...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20122 min read
“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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20124 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20121 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20123 min read
Being a Writer Means Giving Your Brain Daily Adjustments: Everyday Magic, Day 588
24 hours ago, I was in a tizzy about the writing life: I had reached out to dozens of people through emails and calls to set up readings,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 10, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20112 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 21, 20112 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20112 min read
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...
