Joan Mora: Update! Q&A with Sarah Blake

Sarah Blake was so kind to stop by What Women Write! Check it out here.

By the way, I just started her earlier novel, Grange House. Enjoying the eerie story very much!

A Writer's Job Description

Write!
Research
Study your craft--attend workshops, read (see below), practice!
Join a writers’ organization and/or critique group (Writers’ League of Texas is a good place to start!)
Become part of a writing community (Thanks What Women Write partners!)
Help a newbie writer
Read a variety of genres (okay, I need to work on this one)
Research agents and write a query AFTER you’ve written, revised, polished the book
Read industry blogs
Manage your time (too much blog reading?)
Take vacation and time off
Don't vent on Facebook, Twitter, or blogs your frustrations (or jealousy) about another writer

Books I love to re-read

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Shell Seekers, Rosamund Pilcher
The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Glass Lake, Maeve Binchy
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Nature of Water and Air, Regina McBride
Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
The Ice Chorus, Sarah Stonich
March, Geraldine Brooks
Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani
Water Carry Me, Thomas Moran
The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

Brilliantly narrated audio books

The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman (Noah Taylor)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce (Jim Broadbent)
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt (Himself)
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (Himself)
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Return of The Native, Thomas Hardy (Alan Rickman)
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith (Jenny Agutter)
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert (Juliet Stevenson)
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obrecht (Susan Duerden, Robin Sachs)
The Persimmon Tree, Bryce Courtenay (Humphrey Bower)
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (Colin Firth)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (Jonathan Aris, Paula Wilcox)

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