by Linda Phillips | Apr 26, 2013 | Blog
I’ve taken the last several weeks off from “writing” which is not to say I have been sleeping late and sitting around eating bon-bons. To the contrary, I’ve been burning the midnight oil, stretching all my ancient brain cells around the...
by Linda Phillips | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog, Uncategorized
Maybe you can relate to this. You keep thinking you should do something about that drip in the upstairs bathroom faucet, but inevitably the thought occurs to you when you are flying out the door late for an appointment. So you forget about it, until one day you come...
by Linda Phillips | Mar 6, 2013 | Writing
ON THE ROAD Well, that’s a bit of a stretch……I’m not really on the road yet, but I have to admit I do spend some time daydreaming about when I will hit the trail to promote my debut book, tentatively titled CRAZY, around August, 2014. In the...
by Linda Phillips | Feb 20, 2013 | Writing
HOORAY FOR WNBA In a continuation of my last blog, I want to say “hats off” to another great organization that is helping me along on my writing journey. At first glance you might not guess from its name, Womens National Book Association, that there is...
by Linda Phillips | Feb 2, 2013 | Blog, Uncategorized
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS…. I’m working on the second book. Yikes! I never thought I’d hear myself say that. It’s exhilarating and daunting and full of completely new territory all at once. In its young life, this WIP already has a...
by Linda Phillips | Dec 16, 2012 | Mental health
SILVER LININGS AND MENTAL HEALTH The recent movie, Silver Linings Playbook, based on the book by Matthew Quick, struck a chord in me. Why? Because my book CRAZY, coming out in 2014, happens to deal with the same subject–bipolar disease–and I was...
by Linda Phillips | Nov 25, 2012 | Writing
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD… Now that I have come down from the ceiling (directly related to having landed a book deal) and settled onto firm ground once again, I have had a chance to reflect on the journey thus far. The Beatles would affirm that it was “a...
by Linda Phillips | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
AT LAST…. You know the old 1941 song made famous by Glen Miller, sung by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Beyonce. Its love song lyrics go like this: At last my love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song.It goes on to say:I found a...
by Linda Phillips | Oct 16, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
HERE WE GO AGAIN…… So here I am on pins and needles (feels more like daggers and spears) once again because my yet-to-be-published book CRAZY is making an appearance at yet another acquisition committee. The first time around my agent wooed a larger,...
by Linda Phillips | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
Self-publishing or Not, That is the Question…. Recently I had the privilege of speaking to a group of writers at the Charlotte Write To Publish Group. They invited me to talk about my experience acquiring an agent, so I gladly stepped up to the plate and gave...
