Happy Holiday and holiday books
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Greetings!
Happy New Year's Eve. May 2022 bring safety, good health and lots of reading and writing.
Chip's Writing Lessons is on holiday until Jan. 7. I'm looking forward to starting the New Year by sharing new Four Questions with... interviews, Craft Lessons, Readings to Savor, and much more.
I hope the holidays brought you the best writer's gift: books.
For Christmas, I got Jonathan Franzen's new novel Crossroads. I'm looking forward to dividing in.
But before I go.
I hope as you enter the New Year that you'll please consider two books I just published.
Writers on Writing: Inside the lives of 55 distinguished writers and editors. It's an anthology of interviews drawn from two years of reaching out to Susan Orlean, Lane DeGregory, David Finkel, Patricia Smith, Bruce DeSilva, and 50 others that you first met here. 55 writers. Hundreds of Writing Insights. 111 journal writing prompts. bit.ly/chipwow
"By asking four questions to 55 of our finest writers and editors, Chip Scanlan has hosted one of the greatest writing conferences you will ever attend." - Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, Murder your Darlings.
Writers on Writing: The Journal is a companion or standalone volume with 55 coaching tips, 55 inspirational quotes, like the ones you find here in the "Writers Speak" feature, and the 111 writing prompts drawn from the first book, along with three blank pages after each chapter. Here's the place to start your day with reactions, stories, dreams.
https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Writing-Journal-Chip-Scanlan-ebook/dp/B09P4CSZMQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2GFR1Y54K4AS2&keywords=writers+on+writing+the+journal+scanlan&qid=1640954325&sprefix=writers+on+writing+the+journal+scanlan%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-2
READING MATTER
In this piece for Poynter Online, Roy Peter Clark wrote a tribute to writers who write about their writing and included the foreword to my first book, along with his Four Questions interview.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/a-tribute-to-writers-who-write-about-their-writing/
And ICYMI, here's the story behind the self-publishing journey that produced these two books.
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2021/from-reporter-to-the-corner-office-a-self-publishers-maiden-voyage/
My New Year's resolutions for 2022: Never a day without a line. Publish more. Visit my local independent bookstore, Tombolo Books, in St. Petersburg, Fl. Support the independent bookstore in your community.
What are yours?
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May the writing go well, and may you be well.
Nulla dies sine linea / Never a day without a line
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