J.D. Simone
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January 2013
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Ocean Snow
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2012
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Allergy Safe Cuisine: Cooking Without the Top 8 Food Allergens, Plus Corn, Gluten and Msg
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2012
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Mommy's First Picture Book: What Nobody Told You About Parenting!
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2013
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The Aspic Cookbook: A Collection of Unfortunate Atrocities
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Losing Mason, Second Edition
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“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.
Wash the car, maybe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Wash the car, maybe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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