Diane Sherlock
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Happy to announce that The Green Bench is Short of the Week on the LA Shorts Fest site and a Staff Pick. If you have not had a chance to see it, you’ve got one week before it goes back behind the password curtain! We have more festivals to hear from this year before we make…
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Really proud to be part of Drunk Monkeys special issue on sexual abuse. They have a link at their site to donate to RAINN. RAINN’s top donors will match your donations up to $40,000. Let’s do some good, people! You will get a sense of my memoir from my piece. I will put the title in…
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I’m devoting more time to my blog for patrons at Patreon as a matter of survival. If you enjoy this blog or my other writing, please consider supporting my efforts – $1/month or more – and tell a few others who’d be interested. I’m not exaggerating regarding survival. I have been job hunting for a…
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Wrestling Alligators now available in paperback and Kindle. Please spread the word. Thank you!
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It’s amazing to me that anyone with a difficult past completes a memoir. The process redefines difficult. When Rob Roberge was asked about Liar at a reading in San Francisco, he said it was not fun to write and it wasn’t fun reliving it on the book tour. The first vomit draft of my memoir was…
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Our knees are calloused from praying – we do not want our hearts to be. We will not run out of tears. We will also not run out of bullets. We have practiced getting around bans for millennia. We will not run out of compassion for those grieving. We can also choose not run out…
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Originally posted on Women Who Submit: by Diane Sherlock While working on my MFA at Antioch University, Los Angeles, I started my fourth novel, Wrestling Alligators. My primary mentors for the book were Rob Roberge (Liar: A Memoir, Crown 2016) and Gayle Brandeis (Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, HaperOne 2004). I finished…
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Originally posted on Karrie higgins: The day Prince died, I was walking to the audiologist office to pick out hearing aids, Purple Rain playing on my purple iPod, my lipstick-red walking cane tapping its drumbeat on the sidewalk, vibrating through my wrist bones to my elbow bones to my shoulders to my clavicles to my brain, telling me: I…
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We all need help from time to time and you never know who you might help. Even those who are and will always be strangers. Robin Williams and David Bowie had no idea they helped save my life as a teen and adult. That is part of why your story is important. Whether through business,…
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