By Janice Daugharty on
11/17/2008 10:37 AM
I wanting to use my blog to discuss one of my older short stories--"Nightshade."
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By Janice Daugharty on
10/20/2008 5:57 PM
"More than a decade has passed since I had my first collection of short stories published; now, with another out, I'm looking back at all the work involved in compiling enough good stories to make up a collection.
"Actually, I don't even know why writers continue to write short stories, or why small presses like Snake Nation Review, and others, bother with publishing them. I'm wondering how much longer this mini-novel form can hold out. I've written hundreds, with only about a couple of dozen that are worth collecting. Still, I love well-done short stories, and probably will continue to wri ...
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By Janice Daugharty on
9/3/2008 12:53 PM
Note to reader: Like author Anne Rice, I find myself as I get older and more mature in my relationship with Christ becoming bolder about my beliefs and using my writing gift to transmit these beliefs to others, because if I can’t use this gift for righteousness-sake what use am I to God?
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By Janice Daugharty on
3/13/2008 2:01 PM
From the back cover:
“She is a very ordinary middle-class woman, with banal expectations of life and an urge to dominate her surroundings. Her character is remarkable only for an unusual deficiency of natural feeling.” Thus Mary McCarthy, in her memorable Foreword Signet Classic edition, describes Emma Bovary, whose ill-starred pursuit of tawdry romantic dreams shapes Flaubert’s great novel. Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the “man of science,” escapes the author’
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By Janice Daugharty on
1/21/2008 5:00 PM
To break in this new blog site, I’m inviting authors, agents, editors, publishers and readers to join me in a series of discussions about what’s going on in publishing today.
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