Month: August 2015
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De-Stem Your Prose: Writing Advice from SIDEWAYS
“They didn’t de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit.” Miles (Paul Giamatti) Sideways. This is my favorite way to describe over-wrought prose. Back in college, writing “leaves and sticks and mice” in the margins was a shorthand among my friends…
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How To Not Be a Stressed-Out Monster
After a couple weeks of crushing chest pains and stabbing feelings in random parts of my stomach, I managed to get a doctor’s appointment, where they did a bunch of tests (including an EKG) and determined that I have an ulcer brought on by the debilitating stress that is my everyday existence. A little background…
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On Triathlons and The Myth of ‘Wasted Words’
One of the coolest parts about my job as a reporter is that for all the meetings I attend and hard news I write, I also get to do a whole host of feature stories, which means I get to meet a lot of interesting people. And last week, once again, I got to dip into…
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Keeping a Notebook Pt. 2
Let me introduce you to my papercraft creations: The Book of Crows: My first! The spine is a mess, but it’s still got a cool look to it. I went a little crazy in the papercraft section of Michaels, hence the knob on the front cover. HOWEVER, the knob makes it impossible to lay the…
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Galley Copies
My galley copies of The Big Rewind arrived yesterday and…wow. They’re incredible. To actually hold my own book in my hands, to see my name on a cover is such a thrill that I lack the words to describe it. For the whole night I kept picking it up and turning it over in my hands, thinking this…
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The Big Rewind….Cover Reveal!
Here it is, the cover for my debut novel, The Big Rewind! I am beyond thrilled about this. I had gone back and forth about it, choosing colors and such, with Chelsey (my editor) & Jim (my agent), who are the two most awesome people in the publishing world, but until now, the cover was…
Libby Cudmore 