by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 12, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I am thrilled to announce officially that my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, will be published next year in Australia by UQP. As many of you know, I have been working on this book for most of the time I’ve been living in New York....
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 2, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Dear friends, I’m thrilled to report that my client David Kowalski’s novel, The Company of the Dead, is now in stores around Australia. It’s the first book I have agented to appear on the shelves, so it’s a big moment not only for the author,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 24, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Because I’m officially insane, in addition to my NYU summer intensive in Philanthropy and Fundraising I’m attending a weekly Tuesday-night workshop in writing for New York magazines and newspapers with freelance guru and renowned teacher Susan Shapiro....
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 8, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
This is the inevitable but entirely appropriate title to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s deliberation in this weekend’s New York Times on how his love of jazz music helped him to write. As a long-time jazz fan myself, I liked best this anecdote:...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
The first day of July was a breezy respite from some muggy late-June days. I took Sally Cooper, whose memoir of two years in Afghanistan will be published by Pan Macmillan Australia next year, to Prospect Park to take in a game of cricket. She was in NYC briefly en...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It’s been a Big Week in the Big Apple for Apple Girl. In the past seven days I have: 1. sold another book to Pan Macmillan Australia on behalf of my Bridge Literary Services client Sally Cooper, for her hilarious memoir of two years in Afghanistan – yes, a...