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The Czech's 1st Blogiversary!!7 comments

Havlová wrote 3 weeks ago: Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! I made it a whole year. Please post your hearty congratu … more →

Tags: Birthday, Blogiversary, cake, Kitties, the czech

Quotes of the Day

Havlová wrote 3 weeks ago: “The rich, giving part of their enormous earnings [to create universities], became known as ph … more →

Tags: Class, Conservatives, Race, america, Blacks, Howard Zinn, middle class, philanthropists, Republicans

Image from my Life5 comments

Havlová wrote 1 month ago: Kitty cats and records. … more →

Tags: Music, Disco, Kitties, My Life, Records

Fall Foiliage at the Ancesteral Czech-American Homeland

Havlová wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Tags: Czechness, Czech-American, fall foiliage

Apparently, I Am Part of This Protest

Havlová wrote 1 month ago: Apparently, I was part of a protest earlier this year against the University of Minnesota-Twin Citie … more →

Tags: Race, racism, Protest, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, dance program, this

My Crime Is Biking While Female (and living in a classist, racist nation)6 comments

Havlová wrote 1 month ago: Last night, I rode my bike home from an event a couple miles from my house. It was nearly 2 am and I … more →

Tags: Privilege, Women & Gender, Race, Class, racism, Whites, Blacks, Classism, Women

The Czech Featured in 5th Carnival of Feminists!1 comment

Havlová wrote 2 months ago: Check out the 5th Carnival of Feminists over at Zero at the Bone. Lots of good reading to do. They … more →

Tags: Women & Gender, Feminism, feminists, Zero at the Bone, Blog Carnival

Your Opinion Needed: How Do You Define "Socialism"?4 comments

Havlová wrote 2 months ago: Really peeps. Let’s have a little discussion… I think it will be fun and insightful. How … more →

Tags: socialist, Socialism, definition

Busy Writers NEED This Book

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 2 months ago: Okay, actually busy anybodies (like grad students, gardeners, parents, business owners, and all the … more →

Tags: Agent, Author, Authors, baking, cooking, Publishing, recipe, Recipes, writer

More Manuscript Requests, Some Rejections1 comment

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 4 months ago: Oh dear–got so busy with summer fun that I had forgotten I was involved in this whole “t … more →

Tags: Agent, Author, Fiction, literary agent, Novels, Publishing, query, writer, writing

FIFTH Manuscript Request1 comment

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 5 months ago: So an agent e-mailed yesterday to request another manuscript (partial). Yay! I still have yet to hea … more →

Tags: agent queries, Book One, Agent, Author, Authors, Books, literary agents, publisher, Publishing

My FIRST Manuscript Request!2 comments

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: Okay, so it was only a *partial* manuscript request,  but oh wow–who knew that one tiny, two-l … more →

Tags: agent queries, Book One, ya, Agent, Author, Books, Hourglass Door, Lisa Mangum, literary agent

FREE Writer's Conference

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: Announcing the FREE Backwoods Writer’s Conference, where us poor folk who live nowhere near th … more →

Tags: Agent, Author, Authors, Editors, literary agent, Novels, pitch session, Publishing, writer

Watch Out, Wicked Woman!7 comments

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: You were rude, arrogant, and totally patronizing me when you sniffed in my direction and mentioned t … more →

Tags: agent queries, Agent Rejections, Author, book query, literary agents, Novels, Publishing, query, Query Letters

While the Agents are Away . . . 1 comment

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: Word on the Tweet has it that all the literary agents will be out of town for Book Expo America acti … more →

Tags: agent queries, Publishing, Writers, Novels, writer, Author, Authors, Query Letters, literary agents

YA Novel Giveaway1 comment

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: YA author Tara Lazar is giving away an ARC copy of Hate List by Jennifer Brown! Get on over there an … more →

Tags: Writers, writing, ya, Young-Adult, writer, Author, YA Novels, Fiction, Giveaway

My Dream Agent5 comments

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: Last night I dreamed that my husband answered a phone call from an agent who wanted to represent me! … more →

Tags: agent queries, Publishing, Writers, writing, literary agent, writer, Author, Authors

Good News for YA Authors!

Dickinson's Daughter wrote 6 months ago: I encourage everybody to visit the fabulous Jill Corcoran’s blog, where she shared the good ne … more →

Tags: Jill Corcoran, Publishing, Writers, writing, Novels, ya, Young-Adult, children's literature, literary agent

The Celery Stalks at Midnight7 comments

Havlová wrote 7 months ago: Hello friends. I am compelled to cease this blog, as it has been used by a stalker to track my activ … more →


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