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For Your Summertime Listening Pleasure

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 7, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on For Your Summertime Listening Pleasure

On June 27th, in connection with the Download Party at The Booksellers (what has been tagged a “Bookless Booksigning”), four stories from the collection will launch. The stories will be available on this site, iTunes,YouTube, and perhaps elsewhere. They also will be available for purchase on CD at the Download Party if you’d rather access them...

Now I Know

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 6, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on Now I Know

* subpages * how to type a registered trademark symbol onto a document ® … and why you don’t need it ™ * editing your own PDF and uploading it to your blog * other things that I can’t remember right now

Another tiptoe towards going public

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 3, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on Another tiptoe towards going public

Sending out PR packets this week. Thanks to the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference and Neil White’s handouts, at least I know what’s supposed to be in one.

Rainy Day Thoughts

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 31, 2013. Posted in General. 1 Comment on Rainy Day Thoughts

There is a person inside of me who sits on the sofa like the little boy in the back-in-the-day commercial who says, “And I can’t find my socks.” There’s also the girl who wants to pull on her wellies and stomp through the puddles, umbrella resting on her shoulder. There’s the granddaughter who wants to shake a wet...

Working with a Team

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 29, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on Working with a Team

I don’t know anything about sound engineering, but I know somebody who does. I don’t know anything about press kits, but I know somebody who does. I know how to write. And read. For the rest of it, I’ve got friends.

The Killing of a Coastline

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 23, 2013. Posted in General. 4 Comments on The Killing of a Coastline

Standing in a thrift shop so stuffed with used clothes I can hardly breathe, I’m reading the warning signs (“Customers, Watch Your Young ‘Uns”) while the proprietress smokes cigarettes and a motorcycle roars by outside and I’m thinking this is worst thrift store I’ve ever been in. Outside, stray cats roam. When we pass the Old Carrabelle Inn...

A Strange Phenomenon

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 18, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on A Strange Phenomenon

I’ll be telling a story and the listener will interrupt me. “Yes,” they say. “I read it on your blog.” Now, when I tell you how odd it is for people to know things about me I didn’t tell them face-to-face, you will say, “Yes, I know. I read it on your blog.” here’s to creative synthesis ....

Download Party

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 15, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on Download Party

It’s official: the Download Party (the Booksellers June 27th) will have food. It’s gonna be a party.

Tidbits from My Trip

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 15, 2013. Posted in General. 4 Comments on Tidbits from My Trip

oddest sign: “No Livestock Released” at a Tennessee rest stop, which was something of a disappointment as I’d have liked to see some cows wandering about oddest sound: in the fancy bathroom of a fancy Charlotte restaurant Elvis singing the “Dixie” portion of An American Trilogy oddest recurring conversation: about the mother, daughter and toddler...

Oh, Don’t Do That

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 9, 2013. Posted in General. 2 Comments on Oh, Don’t Do That

So I’m walking through the bookstore trying to find a gift for my dad, and I remember the year I talked my sister into giving my grandmother an air conditioning filter for Christmas. I think we were in Sears, and when I saw the air conditioning filter, it reminded me of those collage photo frames (very popular at the time) with lots of little...