by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 19, 2017 | Community
Everbloom, Stories of Living Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives is the new book from Redbud Writers Guild which launches next week. How did it happen? On a sweet summer night in 2015 my hubby and I were sitting on the patio talking about the transforming work God has...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Imagine lines three people wide as far as you can see for Jonathan Safran Foer to sign his forthcoming novel, Here I Am. Think people rushing the entrance to get the coolest book bag swag from Sourcebooks, the free measuring spoons from Capstone. There were so many...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 17, 2015 | Writing
My dear friend signed a contract with an agent today. We met during a writing prompt session in the intimate library of the Margarite House in Evanston, four years ago. A handful of us writing strangers with no established trust hunkered down in red leather chairs to...
by Margaret Philbrick | Nov 14, 2013 | Writing
I hit “submit” last night. This time it wasn’t to an agent or a publisher. This time it was personal, to a poetry publication. During the long winter months of looking for a publisher for my novel, A Minor, I grew quite used to hitting the submit button and then...
