Archive for the 'Literary soundtrack' Category

Alana Morales Is Domestically Challenged!

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Are you? Here’s the place to commiserate. And check out Morales’s new book, Domestically Challenged: A Working Mom’s Survival Guide to Becoming A Stay At Home Mom. Alana recently stopped by on the Girlfriends Cyber Circuit Tour to talk about her literary soundtrack (or lack thereof).
Asked what she listened to while writing the book, [...]

Natalie R. Collins - Literary Soundtrack

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Natalie R. Collins, author of Wives and Sisters, stops by today with her literary soundtrack:
1) The soundtrack to your latest book (what did you listen to while you were writing it?)
Paula Cole, This Fire. She’s one of my faves.
2) one song title (from any album) that would make a great book title (either for [...]

E. Lockhart’s Literary Soundtrack

Monday, April 10th, 2006

E. Lockhart is the author of The Boyfriend List (the corresponding blog, where writers contribute their own boyfriend lists, is a hoot!) and its forthcoming sequel, The Boy Book. At the moment, she’s touring the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit with her new novel for teens, Fly on the Wall. I asked E. about the soundtrack [...]

Tanya Stone’s Literary Soundtrack

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

This week on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit: Tanya Stone, debut author of the young adult novelA Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (hmm, I suspected as much!), just out from Random House. Here’s what Tanya had to say about the musical accompaniment to her novel:
There actually is a real live soundtrack! My hubby [...]

julie kenner’s literary soundtrack

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

New on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit:
Julie Kenner, author of The Givenchy Code, returns with The Manolo Matrix, a novel of extreme gaming. Booklist says:
“A fabulously fun heroine with a math-geek’s mind and a passion for fashion outwits and outplays a ruthless killer in the latest ingenious literary creation from Kenner, whose sharp sense of wit [...]

melissa senate’s literary soundtrack

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Book Page calls Melissa Senate’s new novel, The Breakup Club, “A delightful slice of life of the newly single trying to make it in Manhattan. A treat!” Melissa dropped by for Literary Soundtrack, to tell us what she was listening to while she wrote the novel, which was just released by Red Dress Ink.
While writing [...]

war: what is it good for…

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Questionable poetry in the news on two fronts these days:
1. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s second mate, can be heard reciting poetry to inspire his disciples on an audiotape that’s been making the rounds of terrorist websites. The title of the poem apparently translates as “Tears in the Eyes of Time.” Hmmm, has he been [...]

sheila curran’s literary soundtrack

Monday, January 16th, 2006

A new feature here at Sans Serif will be Literary Soundtrack, in which writers reveal what they were listening to while writing their latest books. Sheila Curran, author of the debut novel Diana Lively is Falling Down, which received a starred review from Booklist (”Curran’s novel gently reminds readers that fantasy has a place in [...]

mama smarts

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Andi Buchanan, managing editor of the hip online mama mag Literary Mama, has a new book out, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, which she co-edited with Amy Hudock (Seal Press, Jan. 2006). This compendium of work gleaned from the magazine features well-known and beginning writers tackling motherhood from many different angles, from adoption [...]

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