“My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.” PeopleGivingTryingMindFirstsBookIdeasRememberAsksFoundInterestingHeardParticularAsk MeReviewsBlankSiteGood BookBlogsBloggingBook Review Author:Debra Hamel
“I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.” WritingMeanBookMemoriesReviewsMy ThoughtsBook Review Author:Debra Hamel
“When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tasks.But that's irregular, depending on how quickly I'm reading.” WritingBookCoursesReadingMinutesTasksPostsRelatedReviewsTake MeBlogs Author:Debra Hamel
“What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the best examples of 'micro-history' or the 'new narrative'...." And that was it.” BookReadingExampleTrialsNarrative Author:Debra Hamel
“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.” WritingBookFoundMinesPagesDecidedAgentsClientsWriting A BookManuscriptsAcknowledgmentLiterary Agents Author:Debra Hamel