Heidi Estrin did a wonderful job of interviewing me, and making sense of my yammerings...listen to the Book of Life podcast for insight into the writing of Running for My Life.
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I had the good fortune of speaking with writers at Write on the Sound, today. We discussed Nanowrimo and I do believe I met a nano-novelist or two, or three, or four. This year is going to be exciting. (If I can just finish the revision on my WIP...there will be nothing to do but look forward to November 1.)
Write a Novel this November Nano-style is the second class I'm offering this fall. It begins on October 18th and runs for 8 weeks through the second week in December. This won't be a workshop style class, it will be a class to support writers who are attempting to write a novel during Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) have fun while the write, and write, and write. I'll be teaching and writing, but the lessons will be less craft focused and more designed to inspire and motivate writers through the difficult days of writing. We'll see how it goes...this will be a nano-experiment.
The cost is $100.00 for 8 weeks, and at the end of it the goal is to have a complete first draft of a novel.
If you live in the Seattle area and prefer in-person classes to online you're in luck, I'm teaching both of these classes at North Seattle Community college. Check your catalogue for registration information.
For more information about the online classes I offer or to be put on my class mailing list please send me an email at ann@anngonzalez.com .
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Please feel free to email me if you have questions about Running for My Life or if you are having any difficulty obtaining a copy. Also, if you would like a signed copy I'm happy to work with Santoro's Books, my neighborhood bookstore, to coordinate purchasing and signing and mailing. Just let me know.
My email address is: ann@anngonzalez.com
**************************************************************************Wow, I received a Flamingnet Top Choice Award from a young reviewer. I'm smiling from ear to ear. It's one thing to have friends and family pat me on the back and say, "good job," and another thing entirely to have Running for My Life be appreciated by a young reader whom I do not know. Thank you Flamingnet...I love the bug.
**************************************************************************Kirby Larson is an amazing writer, person, and friend to all writers. I'm still sad that I made the boneheaded mistake of not acknowledging her on the Acknowledge- ments page of Running for My Life. I would not have been able to write Running for My Life without her guid- ance, support and encouragement. Hattie Big Sky, Two Bobbies, Kirby's blog -- they're all must reads.
**************************************************************************Listen to KUOW's 94.9 Sound Focus to hear me talk
about my mother and what it is like to grow up with a
schizophrenic parent.
Sarah Waller and Jeannie Yandel are wonderful prod-
ucers and hosts. They welcomed me into the studio and
let me wear headphones and talk into the big spongy
yellow microphone. In a recording studio the silence
around the spoken word is the most beautiful sound I've
ever not heard.
At the edge of speech there is a magnificent quiet.
Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky