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Karin Gillespie,fine writer and founder of Girlfriends Book Club (the original Girlfriends Cyber Circuit) wrote an excellent piece for The New York Times (!) called A Master’s in Chick Lit (you can read it here.) It describes very well the literary snobbism she encountered...

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By Barbara Claypole White A few years back, I was fortunate enough to do a workshop with Stephen Barr of Writers House. He talked about conflict born of setting, about how setting can complicate, ruin or create a sense of safety in your story. And then he said something I will...

By Laura SpinellaAs readers we travel to places, visiting people we may never meet in everyday life: Huck on the Mississippi River, Scout in fictional Maycomb Alabama; moving east, we can venture all the way to a semi-fictitious West Egg and the iconic Jay Gatsby. The wind blows,...

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by Lauren Baratz-LogstedThis cycle at GBC we're talking about settings.In terms of setting, the books I've had traditionally published break down as follows:CONNECTICUT: A Little Change of Face; Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes; Crazy Beautiful; Angel's Choice; Secrets of My Suburban Life; Me, In BetweenMASSACHUSETTS:...