carenlissner.com
The Internet home of writer Caren Lissner
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I'm Caren
Lissner's Website!
Author of
Carrie
Pilby — June 1, 2003
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Starting from Square Two (March, 2004)
Carrie Pilby is in bookstores across the country (and in Autralia, Italy, Spain, Mexico and the UK. The second cover above is the Australian version!) Thanks for visiting this site! I owe it all to my Vic-20. Meanwhile, check out my first novel, Carrie Pilby. The book follows the misadventures of a 19-year-old genius who just graduated from college and has no idea how to socialize. She pushes herself to meet people, with disastrous (and comedic) results. An excerpt is below. Also, read reviews below, check out my tips on getting published, or feel free to e-mail me here. Please include something in the subject head other than "Need any golf balls?"
NEWSFLASH: A Carrie Pilby sequel came out as a novella in late 2005, as part of a collection of three novellas! It's called SCENES FROM A HOLIDAY. Order it at Amazon or BN.com.
Read the First page of Pilby.
Check out this story on me and Pilby.
Are you a writer? Here's my advice (for what it's worth) on getting published.
REVIEWS: Here's what they said about Carrie Pilby! New: includes news articles mentioning it, and a section of other people's blog entries about it.
Non-sequitur! Song parody: Cleanin' Out My Keyboard
Links to other writing (will be steadily adding more to this).
Quotes from Carrie Pilby here
Feel free to e-mail me.
Check out which Active tropical storms (including hurricanes) are headed our way. (Don't you need to know?)
My mobylives column on chick lit.
Photos: Bucolic New Jersey, Philly.
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Quote of the Week (4/11):
"Well, the first paragraph is done. Time for a brownie." - Marge Simpson, The Simpsons,, writing a book
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Quote of the Week (4/4):
"Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transporation. But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves...What is harder for the nonpoor to see is poverty as acute distress: the lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift. The 'home' that is also a car or van." -- Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
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Quote of the Week (2/8):
"Someday I'm going to find out everything about everybody and put it in a book." -- Harriet the Spy
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Quote of the Week (2/1):
"Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet." -- Somewhere on the Internet
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Quote of the Week (1/18):
"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." -- Elmore Leonard, on the secret to his writing success
Quote of the Week (1/11):
"But, you know -- wheat germ is better for us than Snickers bars, and I eat Snickers bars all the time, because they're yummy." -- David Foster Wallace, in an interview
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