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Reading from A Heart Blown Open
My first public reading of A Heart Blown Open, from February 20th, 2012, at the Boulder Bookstore.
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The Curse & Magic of Writing
My experience of the creative process is one that is often painful, perhaps because I’ve spent much of my life producing writing that falls short of what I see in my mind and feel in my heart. The Curse The curse of writing is the compulsion to do it; like a lust, it compels me [...]
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The Power of Rejection
I’ve talked quite a bit about the process of becoming a published author, a process that for me was littered with rejection letters. In my late twenties, I even resorted to taking a few years off trying to get published so that I wouldn’t have to create new work while getting constant rejection on the [...]
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The Typo
In the winter of 2009 I sat in my apartment, a package ripped open in front of me, literally sweating with pride. My brand-new book was in-hand, freshly shipped from my publisher. It was a moment I had waited my entire adult life for — to be published, and to have the book, real and tactile [...]
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