New York is the Paris of America —Nina Munteanu Toulouse and I began our New York experience with Manhattan and the Morgan Hotel. I’d booked us there for an incredible deal—rooms typically go for $600+/night (I won’t tell you what I got mine for!.
Topics: Andrée Putnam, architectural design, architecture, avant-garde design, French design, I love NY, The Morgan Hotel

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I came to NYC recently to promote my new writing guidebook The Fiction Writer , at Book Expo America (BEA), North America’s largest book fair. The Fiction Writer was showcased along with other new books for 2009 at the BEA, which was held at New...
Topics: Book Expo America, book fair, books, espresso book machine, Lightning Source, publishing, The Fiction Writer

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I’ve got Georgia on my mind… That isn’t just a line in a song. It’s a lingering sentiment that haunts anyone who has spent any time there, I think. When I went to the Scribblers’ Retreat Writers’ Conference on Saint Simon’s Island in...
Topics: art, fauvism, Georgia, impressionism, Mildred Huie Wilcox, Paris, Saint Simons Island, Scribblers' Retreat Writers' Conference, The Left Bank Gallery

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Two hundred years ago, on February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born within hours of each other in opposite worlds: Darwin in a comfortable home in the English countryside of Shrewsbury; and Lincoln in a log cabin in the Kentucky...
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Darwin and Lincoln, emancipation, evolution, history, humility and grace, politics, revolution, science, slavery

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I recently came back from Georgia, where I participated in the May session of Scribblers’ Retreat Writers’ Conference. I gave one-on-one lunch consultations on writing and publishing in the conference hotel’s bar—er—restaurant. Let me put it...
Topics: Georgia, Georgia speak, Saint Simons Island, Scribblers' Retreat Writers' Conference, tourism

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