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  Harriet's Voice: Home Base for Writing Mothers

  Hi, fellow Grubbies. Please visit my new Web site: http://www.harrietsvoice.com OR http://www.katherinehauswirth.com. The site is geared towards writing mothers but includes links and quotes that many writers will appreciate. Sign up for updates, as the contests, events, blog are still evolving. Please take the online survey! Would love you to send quotes or links for the site.

  Thanks for your support,

  Katherine Hauswirth

  Posted 03 Dec 09

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  Creative moms unite!

  Creative Mothers Unite: Please lend 10 to 15 minutes for a survey on balancing creativity/motherhood to inform the new Harriet’s Voice Web site and book. Contact khauswirth@sbcglobal.net.

  Thank you,

  Katherine

   

  Posted 01 Nov 09

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  any other serious but geogaphically isolated writers out there?

  Hi, Susan. I rarely get to Boston--live in CT, about 2.5 hours away. I have a 6-year-old and that is definitely a challenge with writing time! If the weather cooperates I will manage to get the Grub Street Lock In next weekend-- went last year and it is a real treat!

  I work full time from home (as a medical writer) and write creatively whenever I can, primarily nonfiction but also taking a poetry class online. I am serous about my writing and am trying to build a fund so I can work part time or take the plunge and write creatively for a living.

  If you'd like to try some online critiques, let me know! I've had some success with this approach in the past, at least in a limited way...

  Katherine

  Posted 11 Jan 09

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  Anyone interested in nature writing and other forms of essay?

  Essays are my passion, and have wanted to get more into nature writing most recently. I had a short-lived but great experience with an online nature writers group associated with UVM years ago. Maybe it was too good to be true; the group disbanded! Always eager to talk to other nonfiction writers; particularly essay lovers. It seems like they are hard to find!

  Katherine Hauswirth

  Posted 02 Jul 08

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  Book blurbing

  I have had great luck with writing to authors with whom I feel a link and striking up an online acquaintance. For my recent book proposal, I reached out for several early endorsements, which read just like book blurbs. One was from an editor I knew pretty well, one was from an author I knew only moderately well from online correspondence, and one was from a stranger. I was delighted to find they were willing to look at a synopsis (or in one case, a proposal) and write something up. I think many authors are flattered to be asked, and it also helps build their own name (assuming what they endorse is a good read)! Of course, this might not apply to some really, really, big names who must get asked many times every day!

  Katherine

   

  Posted 20 Aug 08

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  Seeking someone to swap critiques

  I might be interested. Sounds like you write nonfiction?

  I only have one book proposal under my belt; have written a lot of queries for articles.

  Katherine Hauswirth

  Posted 02 Jul 08

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  Looking for a Writer's Group?

  Any CT members?

  I know there are probably not many, but if you live in CT or RI (near CT) I would love to get involved in a group. I live in Deep River and primarily write nonfiction (essays). Dabbling in poetry recently....

   

  Katherine Hauswirth

  Posted 02 Jul 08