Being a Miss Demeanor

This week we’ve added two new writers to our roster. It’s exciting to read new voices and make new friends, but it’s also made me reflect on the almost three years it’s been since I got an e mail from our fabulous agent, Paula Munier, saying, Group blogs are great! You will love these people! Or words to that effect.

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If I Can Do It, You Can Too

That’s the title of one of the panels at the upcoming and new Gotham Writers Conference. There’s also a panel on Embracing Rejection, which I could moderate, and one on The Agent’s View: What We Talk About When We Talk About You, which I am moderating. As a long time Gotham teacher, I’m excited to see what this new venture is like, and so I turned to Josh Sippie, who’s organizing it, and asked him a few questions.

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The New Miss Demeanors

This week, two fabulous authors will be joining the Miss Demeanors team. They are Connie Campbell Berry and L.A. (Laurie) Chandlar, and much more about them to come. (Yes, that does mean that there are now the same number of Miss Demeanors as Supreme Court Justices, and only time will tell which group is more wise. But that’s a different discussion. ) In the mean time, I’ll be posting interviews with our new members over the course of this week, and I’m excited to get to know them.

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