Amanda Holmes, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/amandaholmes/ Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:40:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Blindness, Art Theft And Creation Of A Story https://booksbywomen.org/blindness-art-theft-and-creation-of-a-story/ https://booksbywomen.org/blindness-art-theft-and-creation-of-a-story/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:24:44 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16078 A few months ago, I received a letter from an old acquaintance. While reading about the masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum, she recalled another art theft near Boston, in the 1970s and googled my ex husband. Finding nothing, she googled me and discovered the novel I’d written about our relationship. I called him Angus, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blindness-art-theft-and-creation-of-a-story/feed/ 2 16078 To Be or Not to Be Agented, That is the Question https://booksbywomen.org/to-be-or-not-to-be-agented-that-is-the-question/ https://booksbywomen.org/to-be-or-not-to-be-agented-that-is-the-question/#comments Sun, 17 May 2015 07:37:32 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13398 I never asked this question. Instead I asked how quickly I could get myself an agent. Unagented authors aren’t taken seriously, I reasoned. You can’t approach big houses without one and I wanted readers and a big contract. Getting an agent was the only way to achieve this goal. So I sent out queries, alphabetically, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/to-be-or-not-to-be-agented-that-is-the-question/feed/ 30 13398 Reading Wuthering Heights With Juvenile Offenders https://booksbywomen.org/reading-wuthering-heights-with-juvenile-offenders/ https://booksbywomen.org/reading-wuthering-heights-with-juvenile-offenders/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2015 09:49:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13308 The idea that literature changes people’s lives is the premise of a program I facilitate through Fairfax County Public Library. It’s called Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) and it’s run in partnership with Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court and Fairfax Library Foundation. I work with first time offenders and girls in a […]

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