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June 28, 2005
Winners and books and what do you wish you’d written?
From Alesia, from sunny Florida
Thanks to everybody who wrote to help me celebrate the countdown to my new book! Jennifer Jacula of Alberta Canada and Maureen Emmons (of somewhere in e-mail range) are the two winners of an autographed copy of NICE GIRLS FINISH FIRST.
I’m on a writer’s loop where somebody started the discussion WHICH BOOK DO YOU WISH YOU’D WRITTEN? Lots of people are weighing in on this one, with the answers you might expect: HARRY POTTER (Love the world and the $$$), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, etc.
But it got me wondering – what book do YOU wish you’d written? For me, there are so many it’s a tough question. I’d love to have created the intense mythology of a series like NARNIA or THE LORD OF THE RINGS. But if I keep my answer to a single book, I might have to pick A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. It’s one of the first books I ever read that touched me so deeply I said “I want to do that. I want to be a writer.”
So, QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHICH BOOK DO YOU WISH YOU’D WRITTEN AND WHY?
Posted by Alesia at 12:43 PM | Comments (6)
Comments
Hmmm. Which book do I wish I'd written? That's a tough call, because I'm not worthy of most of the books I wish I'd written. For all time, I'd go with Jane Austen's Emma. If it doesn't have to be a book, William Shakespeare's Taming Of The Shrew. Contemporary, gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson. Did I just manage to completely fail to answer your question? LOL.
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at June 28, 2005 4:07 PM
Hmmm ... maybe I'm lame, but I'll say the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
Posted by: Jennifer Jacula at June 29, 2005 1:59 PM
Something by Judy Cuevas, most especially Dance.
Posted by: beejay at June 29, 2005 9:17 PM
Bridget Jones' Diary. Or The Lord of the Rings. Um, also, Harry Potter. And Pride and Prejudice! And Terry Pratchett's witchy books--or anything else written by him. Or anything by Bill Bryson. Oh, I'm just so fickle...
Michelle :-)
Posted by: Michelle C at June 30, 2005 8:39 AM
I wish I had wrote either Gone With the Wind, or the Sky O'Malley series that Bertrice Small did. I love them all!
Posted by: Teresa at July 1, 2005 4:31 AM
I wish I had written Whitney, My Love.
Posted by: Susan at July 1, 2005 1:13 PM
