Kay Spencer
The Quiet Carrying On of Life
"It was easier to see, in the afternoon slant of sun, how the extended hours of light and warmth of springtime ignited life. Pollen hung...
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Kay Spencer
- Aug 19, 2019
- 3 min
Never Truly Gone - words from the north.
This post is about book reviews in Maine, I promise, but as often happens I've been sidetracked by the research of a single word...
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Kay Spencer
- Jul 7, 2019
- 2 min
Viva Voce: THE BOOK CLUB GROUNDSWELL
It is enormously pleasing to be read and reviewed by people devoted to literature. While I navigate the business end of writing, an...
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Kay Spencer
- Dec 14, 2018
- 1 min
Kirkus Reviews December Edition - Best of 2018
I am honored to have my debut novel, Searching for George's Garden, selected as one of only 35 Indie book reviews included in Kirkus...
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Kay Spencer
- Nov 14, 2018
- 2 min
Kirkus Reviews on Searching for George's Garden
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kay-spencer/searching-for-georges-garden/ A group of disparate characters reconstruct a formal...
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Kay Spencer
- Jul 31, 2018
- 2 min
A Constant State of Motion
Part of the joy of writing is in the research, in what I get to learn along the way. Earlier this year I was reading about regional...
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Kay Spencer
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
Other people named Kay
I signed up as a test pilot for Google email in 2005, and thank goodness I did it then or I might not be using my real name - more on...
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Kay Spencer
- Apr 27, 2018
- 5 min
Hangman - my cancer treatment on an envelope.
On day 21 of 21 consecutive visits to Emory’s Department of Radiation Oncology, I lay on the table for my last radiation treatment and...
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Kay Spencer
- Jun 26, 2017
- 1 min
Post critical evaluation revision: 3
I am on chapter 21 of the third pass of my book: the first being the whole big bloated story purged from my brain to the page. The second...
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Kay Spencer
- Jun 10, 2017
- 1 min
Something beautiful while you write...
My view this morning. Chapter 16, revision two. I need fewer words, but somehow have 1000 more.
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Kay Spencer
- Mar 6, 2017
- 1 min
What the first revision looks like...
Somehow three months of family-visiting, book-reading, movie-watching, car-buying, painting, navel-gazing and quiet-timing have passed (I...
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Kay Spencer
- Dec 30, 2015
- 1 min
From step sheet to first draft...
Three index cards away, on step 97 of 100 of a 46-page step-sheet. 116,320 words, 35 chapters, far away from home and very close to an end.
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