This week’s RNRHS is from Regina Joskow, one of my oldest (as in we’ve been friends for a long time) and dearest friends. Regina was one of the amazing women that I looked up to when I got my first music biz job and she was similarly in love with Soul Asylum, so we had much over which to bond. On top of that, her birthday is the day after mine, so we are astrologically in synch. I had to send Regina a note yesterday afternoon while I…
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Today’s RNRHS post is from my amazing writing critique partner, Karen Stivali. Karen and I met online on the Nathan Bransford forums. I posted a question about writing and sex and Karen not only answered it, I remember thinking that it was a damn good answer. Lo and behold, she sent me a board message the next day inquiring about whether I might want a critique partner. We were really lucky to find each other. Freakishly lucky. We were both at the same place with our manuscripts at…