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During August, Harper Perennial is running a 20 eBooks for $20 promotion, selling a select set of titles for 99-cents at all major eBook retailers.
The list includes: I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky and A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell. Follow this Facebook link to enter a sweepstakes to win a $20 gift certificate from Harper Perennial.
If you want to support an indie bookseller, the promotion works across a number of indie outlets. Below, we’ve listed all the independent bookstores celebrating the promotion through Google eBookstore.
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"[My Christmas lights have] been burning night and day for weeks and should have been taken down already. But like any chore not related to day-to-day survival, they'll probably stay up and lit long into spring. Things in New York sparkle a lot longer than you'd expect before they burn out."
That's an excerpt from Josh Kilmer-Purcell's funny and heartbreaking memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days. He's been our special guest this week, sharing secrets about web community and the life/work balance.
Today, he shares his favorite writing resources in my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
Which writers inspire you? Which websites do you recommend that fledgling writers read? Why?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell:
Armistead Maupin is, of course, the master of the style I most enjoy--along with David Sedaris. Click here to continue reading...
"Maybe memoirs were Bad," wrote Dave Eggers in his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. "Maybe writing about actual events, in the first person, if not from Ireland and before you turned seventy, was Bad."
Our featured guest this week is Josh Kilmer-Purcell, author of I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS), a man who actually built a community of writers to defend the memior.
Along with Hillary Carlip (who wrote QUEEN OF THE ODDBALLS), Maria Dahvana Headley (who wrote THE YEAR OF YES) and Danielle Trussoni (who wrote FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH), he has rallied hundreds of writers around the world to build the Memoirists Collective community
Welcome to my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
So many people like to say things like, "Oh, so and so is too young to write a memoir" or "all memoirs are all fake." Why write a memoir now? How do you defend this art form against memoir-haters who have magically appeared over the last few years?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell:
Did somebody call me young? Who? When? I must send flowers. Continue reading...
The last time I saw Josh Kilmer-Purcell read, the audience was treated to back-up singers and dirty jokes. Climactically, we all got pelted with candy.
All fledgling writers can learn from the reading style of the man who wrote I Am Not Myself These Days. The memoir recounts his days as a popular drag queen, and the book even has an official tee-shirt.
Today he is a guest on my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions.
In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
Besides writing a tremendously funny book, you also specialize in wacky, interactive readings. What's your advice for writers trying to spice up their readings?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell:
Don't read directly from your book. Continue reading...
"The Memoirists Collective is a group of four established, recently published memoirists who met online through MySpace.com, and have banded together to start a revolution in the world of book promotion, through collaboration instead of competition."
If this writing site had a motto, I'd steal that motto. I work hard to connect writers with other writers, readers with writers, and readers with readers.
Today, our special guest is Josh Kilmer-Purcell, a writer who built a career around that motto as he co-founded a writing group called The Memoirists Collective to promote his book, I Am Not Myself These Days.
Welcome my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
Your MySpace page and readings are always packed with supportive readers. How did you build the Memoir Collective community? Any advice for fledgling writers looking to build online communities?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell:
I believe the memoirist collective community has been building because of the positive vibes of the original four members. (Danielle Trussoni, Maria Dahvana Headley, Hillary Carlip, and me.) Continue reading...
