Reimagine yourself as a buzz worthy artist and entrepreneur How to Become a Famous Writer Before You re Dead is an irreverent yet practical guide that combines solid writing advice with guerrilla marketing and promotion techniques guaranteed to launch you into print and into the limelight. If you find yourself writing when you should be sleeping and scribbling notes on odd pieces of paper at every stoplight, you might as well enjoy the fruits of your labor. Before you snap your pencil in half with frustration, please consider the advice writer, teacher, and self made lit star Ariel Gore offers in this useful guide to realizing your literary dreams. True, you ll actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but ultimately literary success is about much more than putting pen to paper or fingers to keys.

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This paperback original offers the most hilarious and heart wrenching essays from ten years of this quintessential alternative parenting bible. Reassuring and hopeful, The Essential Hip Mama is a brilliant testament that one becomes an expert simply through the act of mothering, echoing Gore s own words, Whenever I ve needed parenting advice, I ve put out a call for submissions. Gore has gathered in one volume the whispers and conversations heard in homes, on playgrounds, and in coffeehouses around the country. The Essential Hip Mama captures the heart of a decade s worth of earthy, honest, soulful parenting and topics from circumcision to dating, abortion to the mistaken belief that mothers don t fart. The zine that has grown up alongside Gore s daughter, has covered subjects from weaning to home schooling with a political edge and a puckish sense of humor. It’s been over a decade since Ariel Gore, in a caffeine induced brainstorm, invented Hip Mama as her senior project in college.

Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore