May 7, 2023 • 17 mins
Linda Rosen's novels are always set in the “not-too-distant past” and examine how women reinvent themselves despite obstacles thrown their way. A central theme is that blood is not all that makes a family– and they always feature a piece of jewelry
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(00:01):
I waited this time because I juststarted a whole other interview where I was
like, blah blah blah. Waitdid it just say recording in progress?
It did. I had to goback and start over again. And you
know me, I don't edit,so that's going to be the beginning of
blah blah blah, Dan, youbetter start over. I don't know.
(00:23):
On on one of the end,I thought, ladies, wow, that
felt very professional. I apologize toanyone watching this that was like I showed
up for their Bobby lynliness. Andfirst of all, there's not a day
today. That's just a meet,so I'm sorry. It's only one half
of the fun. But twice occasionally, I'm serious about four times a year,
(00:46):
and that way we get to writebooks, and those books are And
I thought divorce was bad, andI thought being grown up was easy.
My voice is not taking this entirething seriously. I'm about to call and
I thought, being if only Iwere me a memoir in verse four,
Coffee Whittles Web in Whiddle's Debt.You can find any of those books wherever
you get audio books. And yeah, we have not come out with a
(01:06):
new audiobook quite yet. I thinkI'm going to do two maybe three this
year. That's like thousand dollars invested. I'm not thrilled with that. But
anyway, no one needs to knowhow much it cost to make an audio
book. Oh, you will findout the rest of about our books,
which is the whole seventeen books onour website at www dot d I thought
(01:29):
ladies dot com. If you're wonderingwhy my fingers were up there, that's
because it's signed language, and Igot bored and I'm not that entertaining,
so sign language adds to the entertainmentvalue. Correct. But you're not here
to hear about me. You're hereto hear about our wonderful gas. Wonderful
gas, which I like to introduceyourself. I would love to just listening
to you. It's so much fun. Okay. I am Linda Rosing,
(01:52):
novelists, pickleball player, swimmer,snowbird. I live part of the year
in New Jersey and in Florida.I hate shoes and socks, so when
I have to swap my sandals forshoes and socks, I head to Florida.
I'm very fortunate I can do that. I write in both places,
and I'm coming up with my thirdnovel coming out May eleventh, and it's
(02:16):
called The Emerald Necklace. But yousaid something about audio books. I gotta
go find yours, because who's justrecently looking for a new audio book to
listen to because I love listening tothem, and both my other books,
The Disharmony of Silence and Sisters ofthe Vine are an audio also audio ebook
(02:37):
print. Yeah, I was justlooking for a new book to listen to
also, and I have like fivecredits. So I'm sitting here like running
through going that's a boring book.I'm going to listen to that. I've
been listening to books I hate,I'm boring through. I'm like, I'm
gonna get finished now. I liketo listen to a book keeps me walking,
(02:58):
or like if I have a longride, and that's just it.
I'm coming up to Tuesday taking along ride, So I am going to
go look for one of your audiobooks. Well, yeah, my books
are short, so I'm not sure. Mine is more like going to the
grocery store coming back. That's goodtoo, minor regular full length novels,
(03:19):
but that's okay. I would Ididn't believe in that night right now,
not right now, like later thisyear. The summer full length novels are
coming your way. But that's notimportant. We're not here to talk about
that at all. We're here totalk about your book. But first of
all, did you say pickleball?I play pickleball? Yes? What is
a pickleball? Okay? That isprobably the hottest sport now. It's on
(03:43):
a court like a tennis court,but it's a shorter tennis court. It's
a shorter court, a lower net. The ball is kind of a mix
between a whiffleball. It's like alittle smaller than a whiffle ball, and
it's a harder plastic, not likea tennis ball. The paddle is kind
of a mixture in between a pingpong paddle and a racquetball paddle. Okay,
(04:08):
um, oh, it's a greatit's a fantastic game. It's a
fabulous it's a court game. Lookit up on YouTube. You'll see it's
a really good, fabulous game.And you don't have to run as much
as you do in tennis. Butit's really quick. It's very quick,
and it's a lot of knee bending. Oh I was just say, you
(04:29):
gotta go down low to pick upthe ball, you know, for your
paddle to get the ball. Itdoesn't bounce up like a tennis ball bounces.
I am sure there's plenty of yourlisteners who play pickleball. I was
about to say the same thing.I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be
great because they're gonna be like,why does one Nolan not know what a
pickle ball playing? That's because I'mold, y'all, I'm getting old.
(04:49):
That's why. Well, people thinkpickle ball is a senior sport actually,
and I mean it really isn't.They're teaching it in high schoo bools now,
and if you go on YouTube tolook, it has really gotten very
competitive, and the young people playit very differently than the senior people play
(05:11):
it. But it's really it's agreat game. It's a great I look,
it's a great game for me toplay with some seniors. So yes,
So okay, okay, now we'reall a pickaball and we're going back
to professional things. I promise youthis time. Third book what made you
go? Okay? Book one thatwas wonderful, Book two that was great,
(05:32):
But I've got to do it athird time. Well, you know,
when up bookball came out. Iwas so blown away that I had
a book out in public and peoplecould put it in their hands and sit
down and read it. But Idid have a second book, you know,
at the same time, you know, running around my head the same
time I was writing the first.So the second one then came out,
(05:54):
and I was on a road It'slike, oh my gosh, and it
was I got to do this.And I really like writing something historical,
not too far back, like inthe not too distant past, and I
I don't take a person or areal historical figure. I'll like take an
(06:14):
incident events. And when my secondbook was Sisters of the Vine, that
took place in the sixties and seventies, and I found as I was writing
it, I was getting more andmore into like the second phase of feminism,
because the character is fighting her fiftiesmentality and coming into being a more
(06:38):
aware of woman and fighting her wayinto the all male world of winemakers.
So I wanted to stay with that. And when I was looking to see
what else could I write about thatin that period of time, I didn't
want to get into the Vietnam War. I didn't want to get into hippies
and you know, any of thatstuff. And I came across the Women's
(07:00):
Strike for Equality in nineteen seventy andI went, Okay, my characters are
going to go to that. Andthat was when women were striking Betty for
Dan and you know, they wereall coming out for this and it was
women's equality in the workplace and freeabortion and free childcare, and that stuff
(07:23):
resonates today. So the book isnot about that, but my characters do
take a road trip up to NewYork to go there, and the whole
equality issue is woven into The EmeraldNecklace, which is really a book that
deals with envy and jealousy, butI weave in that history. I always
(07:46):
like how you always find like oneemotional or two emotional things like make the
theme of your book. Like there'sso much going on, but you read,
you match up with that that emotionbook, and you're like, oh,
I've felt that before. Yeah.And I think anybody who's in the
(08:07):
art world, whether you're a writer, a painter, sculptor, you will
recognize that. But also everybody hassome envy of something of someone. But
my characters Rosalie is an insecure sculptorand her new neighbor is a best selling
mystery writer, and because of longheld secrets, and they have a lot
(08:37):
of envy, real bitter envy foreach other. And so while the whole
women's equality issue is going on,they have their own issues. And will
this bitter envy and their secrets tearthis tenuous friendship apart? Or could Jill
(09:00):
Roslie's granddaughter, with the story behindher emerald necklace, bind them together.
So there's a lot in there thatyou can talk about with envy and jealousy.
Also, okay with that answer,so well, how it was so
well pood and the fact that reallyit was a large promotional thing to make
(09:22):
you really want to read that book? Oh, thank you? Thanks?
Well, where'd you get your mediatraining? Thank you? Jackets of Water?
Okay, so yeah, no,how do you how does an author
like you prepare for podcasts? Imean, because you write phenomenal books,
(09:45):
a lot of women's and a lotof women's emotions, a lot of women
binding together. So I know thattakes a lot of time sitting in the
chair, developing, rewriting, editing, but you come out and you come
out strong on podcasts. Can youtell us you're secret. Thank you.
Well, I don't have a secret. I love talking books and bookish stuff
and I like meeting people, soI don't have a problem with it,
(10:09):
and I just really enjoy it.I do. You just mentioned book and
bookish stuff. I believe you arepart of I am I am. I
am a tour never in my lifea tour guide. Where would you like
me to take you? But Ihave a tour guide on the Bookish road
Trip, which is a Facebook group. Yeah, we've got and you know
(10:31):
what for ground Well, this isgonna this is gonna air way after ground
dog days. So forget what Iwas gonna say. But anyway, Bookish
road Trip on Facebook we're always doinggreat things for readers and for the authors.
So it's not one of those siteswhere it's the authors are on there
pushing their books at you. Wehave all kinds of fun stuff going on.
(10:56):
I'm going to ask you what Iask everyone in this group. When
is there a book is road toroad trip conference? You know we talk
about that, but we haven't.I don't know, maybe one of these
days we just haven't come up withit. We haven't, but we need
to. I know, we keepgrowing and growing we are, I don't
(11:16):
know, like we're over four thousandmembers. I don't know by now forty
five hundred, I don't know.We got a lot of members. And
yeah, every day there's something goingon for readers and for writers, and
you know, fun stuff on Sundays. Starting in February, So by the
time we air this and I'll havegone on, I'm posting literary trivia every
(11:43):
Sunday. That's gonna be fun.That question just got me thinking, and
I think, I think, Ithink if y'all like this, we're gonna
I'm gonna float your suggestion after we'redone. Okay. I like collaborating on
any thing. I had this ideaanyway, it's two now. Wow,
(12:05):
No, I gotta slow my braindown. It's working too hard. It's
like, because it's doing home toilyou do. You have a thousand things
going on in your mind at once, and it works well. Apparently does.
But it seems to work well foryou as well because you keep all
those subplots and those plot lines togetherand you distinguish each character. Can you
(12:26):
at least tell us like one tipthat you would have on making a great
character and building a subplot for thatcharacter. Okay, yeah, sure.
In fact, I'm working on bookfour as book three is coming out.
I haven't started writing writing it,but that's exactly what I'm doing, is
(12:46):
creating my characters, and I writean entire bio for them. It doesn't
get into the book. It reallydoesn't matter if she got along with her
mother or hated her father, oryou know, had two sisters. But
I have to have a whole biofor my characters because then they come alive
and I don't know, I justcreate everything, even what they look like,
(13:09):
the kind of clothes they wear.Because once I get that bio,
and it also grows as I'm writingthe book, because you know, the
character comes more alive to me asI'm writing it also, but by having
that, you can create their backstory, why they would feel a certain way,
(13:31):
why they don't like something, whythey do like something, how they
would react. I mean, isshe going to be a nice, sweet
old lady? Is she going tobe a nasty woman? What happened to
her on her eighth birth? Theymight affect it. So yeah, I
create a whole bio. That isnice. You've really get to know your
(13:52):
characters. I mean, they livewith you now, Like, honestly,
they have candles in your head.I just thought this. It's called Aqua
Nottes. It hooks, it sticksonto your shower tiles, and it has
some kind of a pencil that iswaterproof. Because the best ideas come in
(14:13):
the shower, and so if somethingcomes to me, I can write it
down while I'm in the shower andit won't wash away. Nice. I
just found out about them, andI would get very excited. Unfortunately,
my show, I would just bein there writing like we've done. You
know, they're not going to washaway. I'm not gonna actually throw them
(14:33):
away. I'm not going to erasethem. My there it is. Well,
you know, a great idea comesto you, something about a character
or a plot point, You putit down and then at least once you're
out, you haven't lost it.It's there. It's written on a piece
of paper stuck in your shower.What is the best what is the best
(14:54):
device you can give us on gettingour butts in the chair and making them
stay there and not procrastinating. Oh, you're asking the wrong person. I
was just in class. One inmy classmates was like, I'm horrible because
I procrastinate. And I said,I don't know one author, not even
one journalist that doesn't procrastinate. Well, I actually I do make a date
(15:20):
with myself, and that that's whatit is. It's like, okay,
Tuesday afternoon, I am sitting downand writing. And it will work if
I make a date with myself,because then if somebody says, oh,
you want to go to lunch oryou wanted to No, no I can't.
I always say I can write onthe way there. This might be
(15:43):
where there was no new book fromus. Oh but yeah, no procrastination.
Yeah, yeah, except if I'mreally deep into the story. Yeah,
and then then I'm happy to sitdown for me getting the first words
down. That's the artists getting itstarted. I'm much better on revisions.
(16:03):
M Okay, I don't speak onrevisions anymore. People find it insulting to
the writing craft. But writing isrewriting. Okay, yeah, yeah,
you're very right now. It isabout I think Stephen King was the one
who said that. I'm not sure, but writing is rewriting. Yeah,
(16:26):
it's taking what you love and makingit better until it better and better,
and playing with those words and phrases. Absolutely know what The funny thing is
that even when you read your finalproduct, you're like, I could have
done that better. Oh yeah,yeah, that's the worst. The book
is print, it's out and you'regoing, oh, I should have written
that. It could have been tighterright there. Yeah, but anyway,
(16:47):
Oh, can you tell us wherewe can find more out about your book
and about you? And then I'mgoing to wrap this up absolutely. Thank
you. Everything you can find outabout me is on my website, Linda
dash rose and dot com, andyou can find out everything there. Book
three the Emerald Necklace is not onthe well, it will be on the
website by the time this goes out. I'm sorry, Yes, Linda dash
(17:11):
Rosen dot com. Jump over there, you'll find out everything. Thank you,
thank you, Nona, thank you, thank you, thank you so
much for being here today. Andremember you can find out everything that your
ladies are doing at www dot mI thought ladies dot com. While you're
there, to go down to themiddle of the page and see the charities
that we probably support. Maybe youcan see take some time out and give
(17:32):
them a little help too. Rememberthat wisdom is all around you if you're
open to finding it and accepting it'sa piece and love you guys from Willlona
and the Missing Jade. Oh yeah, thanks for
I waited this time because I juststarted a whole other interview where I was
like, blah blah blah. Waitdid it just say recording in progress?
It did. I had to goback and start over again. And you
know me, I don't edit,so that's going to be the beginning of
blah blah blah, Dan, youbetter start over. I don't know.
(00:23):
On on one of the end,I thought, ladies, wow, that
felt very professional. I apologize toanyone watching this that was like I showed
up for their Bobby lynliness. Andfirst of all, there's not a day
today. That's just a meet,so I'm sorry. It's only one half
of the fun. But twice occasionally, I'm serious about four times a year,
(00:46):
and that way we get to writebooks, and those books are And
I thought divorce was bad, andI thought being grown up was easy.
My voice is not taking this entirething seriously. I'm about to call and
I thought, being if only Iwere me a memoir in verse four,
Coffee Whittles Web in Whiddle's Debt.You can find any of those books wherever
you get audio books. And yeah, we have not come out with a
(01:06):
new audiobook quite yet. I thinkI'm going to do two maybe three this
year. That's like thousand dollars invested. I'm not thrilled with that. But
anyway, no one needs to knowhow much it cost to make an audio
book. Oh, you will findout the rest of about our books,
which is the whole seventeen books onour website at www dot d I thought
(01:29):
ladies dot com. If you're wonderingwhy my fingers were up there, that's
because it's signed language, and Igot bored and I'm not that entertaining,
so sign language adds to the entertainmentvalue. Correct. But you're not here
to hear about me. You're hereto hear about our wonderful gas. Wonderful
gas, which I like to introduceyourself. I would love to just listening
to you. It's so much fun. Okay. I am Linda Rosing,
(01:52):
novelists, pickleball player, swimmer,snowbird. I live part of the year
in New Jersey and in Florida.I hate shoes and socks, so when
I have to swap my sandals forshoes and socks, I head to Florida.
I'm very fortunate I can do that. I write in both places,
and I'm coming up with my thirdnovel coming out May eleventh, and it's
(02:16):
called The Emerald Necklace. But yousaid something about audio books. I gotta
go find yours, because who's justrecently looking for a new audio book to
listen to because I love listening tothem, and both my other books,
The Disharmony of Silence and Sisters ofthe Vine are an audio also audio ebook
(02:37):
print. Yeah, I was justlooking for a new book to listen to
also, and I have like fivecredits. So I'm sitting here like running
through going that's a boring book.I'm going to listen to that. I've
been listening to books I hate,I'm boring through. I'm like, I'm
gonna get finished now. I liketo listen to a book keeps me walking,
(02:58):
or like if I have a longride, and that's just it.
I'm coming up to Tuesday taking along ride, So I am going to
go look for one of your audiobooks. Well, yeah, my books
are short, so I'm not sure. Mine is more like going to the
grocery store coming back. That's goodtoo, minor regular full length novels,
(03:19):
but that's okay. I would Ididn't believe in that night right now,
not right now, like later thisyear. The summer full length novels are
coming your way. But that's notimportant. We're not here to talk about
that at all. We're here totalk about your book. But first of
all, did you say pickleball?I play pickleball? Yes? What is
a pickleball? Okay? That isprobably the hottest sport now. It's on
(03:43):
a court like a tennis court,but it's a shorter tennis court. It's
a shorter court, a lower net. The ball is kind of a mix
between a whiffleball. It's like alittle smaller than a whiffle ball, and
it's a harder plastic, not likea tennis ball. The paddle is kind
of a mixture in between a pingpong paddle and a racquetball paddle. Okay,
(04:08):
um, oh, it's a greatit's a fantastic game. It's a
fabulous it's a court game. Lookit up on YouTube. You'll see it's
a really good, fabulous game.And you don't have to run as much
as you do in tennis. Butit's really quick. It's very quick,
and it's a lot of knee bending. Oh I was just say, you
(04:29):
gotta go down low to pick upthe ball, you know, for your
paddle to get the ball. Itdoesn't bounce up like a tennis ball bounces.
I am sure there's plenty of yourlisteners who play pickleball. I was
about to say the same thing.I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be
great because they're gonna be like,why does one Nolan not know what a
pickle ball playing? That's because I'mold, y'all, I'm getting old.
(04:49):
That's why. Well, people thinkpickle ball is a senior sport actually,
and I mean it really isn't.They're teaching it in high schoo bools now,
and if you go on YouTube tolook, it has really gotten very
competitive, and the young people playit very differently than the senior people play
(05:11):
it. But it's really it's agreat game. It's a great I look,
it's a great game for me toplay with some seniors. So yes,
So okay, okay, now we'reall a pickaball and we're going back
to professional things. I promise youthis time. Third book what made you
go? Okay? Book one thatwas wonderful, Book two that was great,
(05:32):
But I've got to do it athird time. Well, you know,
when up bookball came out. Iwas so blown away that I had
a book out in public and peoplecould put it in their hands and sit
down and read it. But Idid have a second book, you know,
at the same time, you know, running around my head the same
time I was writing the first.So the second one then came out,
(05:54):
and I was on a road It'slike, oh my gosh, and it
was I got to do this.And I really like writing something historical,
not too far back, like inthe not too distant past, and I
I don't take a person or areal historical figure. I'll like take an
(06:14):
incident events. And when my secondbook was Sisters of the Vine, that
took place in the sixties and seventies, and I found as I was writing
it, I was getting more andmore into like the second phase of feminism,
because the character is fighting her fiftiesmentality and coming into being a more
(06:38):
aware of woman and fighting her wayinto the all male world of winemakers.
So I wanted to stay with that. And when I was looking to see
what else could I write about thatin that period of time, I didn't
want to get into the Vietnam War. I didn't want to get into hippies
and you know, any of thatstuff. And I came across the Women's
(07:00):
Strike for Equality in nineteen seventy andI went, Okay, my characters are
going to go to that. Andthat was when women were striking Betty for
Dan and you know, they wereall coming out for this and it was
women's equality in the workplace and freeabortion and free childcare, and that stuff
(07:23):
resonates today. So the book isnot about that, but my characters do
take a road trip up to NewYork to go there, and the whole
equality issue is woven into The EmeraldNecklace, which is really a book that
deals with envy and jealousy, butI weave in that history. I always
(07:46):
like how you always find like oneemotional or two emotional things like make the
theme of your book. Like there'sso much going on, but you read,
you match up with that that emotionbook, and you're like, oh,
I've felt that before. Yeah.And I think anybody who's in the
(08:07):
art world, whether you're a writer, a painter, sculptor, you will
recognize that. But also everybody hassome envy of something of someone. But
my characters Rosalie is an insecure sculptorand her new neighbor is a best selling
mystery writer, and because of longheld secrets, and they have a lot
(08:37):
of envy, real bitter envy foreach other. And so while the whole
women's equality issue is going on,they have their own issues. And will
this bitter envy and their secrets tearthis tenuous friendship apart? Or could Jill
(09:00):
Roslie's granddaughter, with the story behindher emerald necklace, bind them together.
So there's a lot in there thatyou can talk about with envy and jealousy.
Also, okay with that answer,so well, how it was so
well pood and the fact that reallyit was a large promotional thing to make
(09:22):
you really want to read that book? Oh, thank you? Thanks?
Well, where'd you get your mediatraining? Thank you? Jackets of Water?
Okay, so yeah, no,how do you how does an author
like you prepare for podcasts? Imean, because you write phenomenal books,
(09:45):
a lot of women's and a lotof women's emotions, a lot of women
binding together. So I know thattakes a lot of time sitting in the
chair, developing, rewriting, editing, but you come out and you come
out strong on podcasts. Can youtell us you're secret. Thank you.
Well, I don't have a secret. I love talking books and bookish stuff
and I like meeting people, soI don't have a problem with it,
(10:09):
and I just really enjoy it.I do. You just mentioned book and
bookish stuff. I believe you arepart of I am I am. I
am a tour never in my lifea tour guide. Where would you like
me to take you? But Ihave a tour guide on the Bookish road
Trip, which is a Facebook group. Yeah, we've got and you know
(10:31):
what for ground Well, this isgonna this is gonna air way after ground
dog days. So forget what Iwas gonna say. But anyway, Bookish
road Trip on Facebook we're always doinggreat things for readers and for the authors.
So it's not one of those siteswhere it's the authors are on there
pushing their books at you. Wehave all kinds of fun stuff going on.
(10:56):
I'm going to ask you what Iask everyone in this group. When
is there a book is road toroad trip conference? You know we talk
about that, but we haven't.I don't know, maybe one of these
days we just haven't come up withit. We haven't, but we need
to. I know, we keepgrowing and growing we are, I don't
(11:16):
know, like we're over four thousandmembers. I don't know by now forty
five hundred, I don't know.We got a lot of members. And
yeah, every day there's something goingon for readers and for writers, and
you know, fun stuff on Sundays. Starting in February, So by the
time we air this and I'll havegone on, I'm posting literary trivia every
(11:43):
Sunday. That's gonna be fun.That question just got me thinking, and
I think, I think, Ithink if y'all like this, we're gonna
I'm gonna float your suggestion after we'redone. Okay. I like collaborating on
any thing. I had this ideaanyway, it's two now. Wow,
(12:05):
No, I gotta slow my braindown. It's working too hard. It's
like, because it's doing home toilyou do. You have a thousand things
going on in your mind at once, and it works well. Apparently does.
But it seems to work well foryou as well because you keep all
those subplots and those plot lines togetherand you distinguish each character. Can you
(12:26):
at least tell us like one tipthat you would have on making a great
character and building a subplot for thatcharacter. Okay, yeah, sure.
In fact, I'm working on bookfour as book three is coming out.
I haven't started writing writing it,but that's exactly what I'm doing, is
(12:46):
creating my characters, and I writean entire bio for them. It doesn't
get into the book. It reallydoesn't matter if she got along with her
mother or hated her father, oryou know, had two sisters. But
I have to have a whole biofor my characters because then they come alive
and I don't know, I justcreate everything, even what they look like,
(13:09):
the kind of clothes they wear.Because once I get that bio,
and it also grows as I'm writingthe book, because you know, the
character comes more alive to me asI'm writing it also, but by having
that, you can create their backstory, why they would feel a certain way,
(13:31):
why they don't like something, whythey do like something, how they
would react. I mean, isshe going to be a nice, sweet
old lady? Is she going tobe a nasty woman? What happened to
her on her eighth birth? Theymight affect it. So yeah, I
create a whole bio. That isnice. You've really get to know your
(13:52):
characters. I mean, they livewith you now, Like, honestly,
they have candles in your head.I just thought this. It's called Aqua
Nottes. It hooks, it sticksonto your shower tiles, and it has
some kind of a pencil that iswaterproof. Because the best ideas come in
(14:13):
the shower, and so if somethingcomes to me, I can write it
down while I'm in the shower andit won't wash away. Nice. I
just found out about them, andI would get very excited. Unfortunately,
my show, I would just bein there writing like we've done. You
know, they're not going to washaway. I'm not gonna actually throw them
(14:33):
away. I'm not going to erasethem. My there it is. Well,
you know, a great idea comesto you, something about a character
or a plot point, You putit down and then at least once you're
out, you haven't lost it.It's there. It's written on a piece
of paper stuck in your shower.What is the best what is the best
(14:54):
device you can give us on gettingour butts in the chair and making them
stay there and not procrastinating. Oh, you're asking the wrong person. I
was just in class. One inmy classmates was like, I'm horrible because
I procrastinate. And I said,I don't know one author, not even
one journalist that doesn't procrastinate. Well, I actually I do make a date
(15:20):
with myself, and that that's whatit is. It's like, okay,
Tuesday afternoon, I am sitting downand writing. And it will work if
I make a date with myself,because then if somebody says, oh,
you want to go to lunch oryou wanted to No, no I can't.
I always say I can write onthe way there. This might be
(15:43):
where there was no new book fromus. Oh but yeah, no procrastination.
Yeah, yeah, except if I'mreally deep into the story. Yeah,
and then then I'm happy to sitdown for me getting the first words
down. That's the artists getting itstarted. I'm much better on revisions.
(16:03):
M Okay, I don't speak onrevisions anymore. People find it insulting to
the writing craft. But writing isrewriting. Okay, yeah, yeah,
you're very right now. It isabout I think Stephen King was the one
who said that. I'm not sure, but writing is rewriting. Yeah,
(16:26):
it's taking what you love and makingit better until it better and better,
and playing with those words and phrases. Absolutely know what The funny thing is
that even when you read your finalproduct, you're like, I could have
done that better. Oh yeah,yeah, that's the worst. The book
is print, it's out and you'regoing, oh, I should have written
that. It could have been tighterright there. Yeah, but anyway,
(16:47):
Oh, can you tell us wherewe can find more out about your book
and about you? And then I'mgoing to wrap this up absolutely. Thank
you. Everything you can find outabout me is on my website, Linda
dash rose and dot com, andyou can find out everything there. Book
three the Emerald Necklace is not onthe well, it will be on the
website by the time this goes out. I'm sorry, Yes, Linda dash
(17:11):
Rosen dot com. Jump over there, you'll find out everything. Thank you,
thank you, Nona, thank you, thank you, thank you so
much for being here today. Andremember you can find out everything that your
ladies are doing at www dot mI thought ladies dot com. While you're
there, to go down to themiddle of the page and see the charities
that we probably support. Maybe youcan see take some time out and give
(17:32):
them a little help too. Rememberthat wisdom is all around you if you're
open to finding it and accepting it'sa piece and love you guys from Willlona
and the Missing Jade. Oh yeah, thanks for
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