The Cancer is a Bitch blog.
Thursday, August 7th — NYC
Backspace Writers Conference
Memoir Panel
Past Events
Saturday, May 24th — Chicago, Illinois
Pilcrow Lit Fest Panel
Amazing, bright, funny, insightful people who love the word as much as I do.
Photos here and a podcast here,
Rerouting: Recovery and other things that change the creative process.
Classy Not Assy: Rejection, professional jealousy, unfairness and other remedial woes of creativity.
Community v. Solitude: How workshops, conferences, book clubs, blogs and bookstores influence the creative process.
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Gail Konop Baker is a knock-out writer who cracks me up one minute then brings me to tears the next. Her beautiful, funny, feisty, poignant memoir isn't just an inspiration for cancer patients and their families—but for all of us. There is so much wisdom between these pages, yet the story is told without an ounce of self pity or a trace of triteness. In the end, this tale is a testament to how precarious and priceless life is, and how each of us needs to live it to the fullest, starting right now