Blog Overview
06/08/10 - 03:59 PM
Check out my book review for Duncan’s Diary here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/fear-factor-in-fiction_b_604905.html
http://www.amazon.com/Duncans-Diary-Birth-Serial-Killer/dp/1440175187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275963877&sr=8-1
04/25/10 - 09:22 PM
Check out my review for “Never Tell Our Business to Strangers” on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/memoirs-require-more-than_b_551207.html
Next book I’ll be reviewing: “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (Scribner) by Rich...
03/26/10 - 03:48 PM
This review was originally published on The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/george-orwell-inspires-th_b_515184.html
George Orwell Inspires “The Informer”
Is it a stretch to think that the uprising of some of today’s organizatio...
02/15/10 - 01:37 PM
I just posted the following blog and wanted to share it with you here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/watching-that-u-haul-driv_b_462847.html
Watching That U-Haul Drive Away
It’s not as though I didn’t know this day would come and, in most r...
02/10/10 - 11:48 AM
The following blog was originally posted here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/instant-gratification-or_b_456798.html
Instant Gratification or Superfluous Distractions?
Many writers have been given an opportunity to be read, discovered and validated, an ...
02/01/10 - 09:23 AM
The following blog was originally posted on The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/will-tomorrows-generation_b_444244.html
Will Tomorrow’s Generation Lose Something in this Computer Age?
Tucked in a box in my attic are letters I received over...
01/26/10 - 10:28 AM
The following blog was originally posted on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/it-all-started-with-a-boo_b_436812.html
It All Started with a Book and a Curious Little Girl
I wish I’d paid more attention when I had been in s...
01/18/10 - 09:51 PM
The Article below was originally published on The Huffington Post, 1/18/2010—Feel free to comment:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/american-intelligence-and_b_427592.html
American Intelligence and Those Ignored Clues
As children, whenev...
01/09/10 - 12:23 PM
Below is the review for “The Glass Room” originally published on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/an-architectural-wonder-i_b_417328.html
Comments Welcomed.
An Architectural Wonder Inspires a Work of Fiction
Because I recently end...
12/30/09 - 08:24 AM
Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHOL2Bl9sU
12/01/09 - 11:09 AM
After reading the article in today’s New York Times about Cormac McCarthy donating his Olivetti manual typewriter, one on which he wrote countless manuscripts, perhaps even his Pulitzer winner, I couldn’t help but recall my first typewriter, a manual Smith & Corona, the color of a pl...
11/17/09 - 07:33 PM
I invite you to read my review for “The Tree That Time Built” here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/poetrys-decline_b_361499.html
11/08/09 - 05:35 PM
I invite you to read my review of Irene Vilar’s “Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict” here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/the-abortion-addict_b_350128.html
10/28/09 - 08:23 PM
If you like real ghost stories, read my review of Ghosts of Clinton County by Gordie Little:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/ghosts-of-clinton-county_b_337817.html
10/25/09 - 10:08 PM
The following review was originally posted on The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/the-buying-and-selling-of_b_333195.html
The Buying and Selling of Andy Warhol
It wasn’t until Benjamin Genocchio’s review of the Norman...
10/12/09 - 03:36 PM
Yesterday I posted a review for Kristen J. Tsetsi's novel Homefront. After seeing my previous reviews for some other books on The Huffington Post, Kristen asked if I'd consider reviewing her novel. Once I heard what the subject matter was, I agreed. I'm glad I did. I was so intrigued and impre...
10/11/09 - 02:11 PM
I welcome you all to read my review of Kristen J. Tsetsi’s novel, Homefront here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/what-do-we-do-after-we-se_b_316791.html
10/07/09 - 09:54 AM
I invite you to read the interview author Brenda Janowitz did with me a couple of months ago. Brenda’s now a brand new mommy and is a busy woman, but she managed to post the interview I did with her here: http://brendajanowitz.blogspot.com/. And…find out how you may win an autographed&n...
09/24/09 - 11:05 AM
Here’s the link to my Red Room blog on “Saying Goodbye.” http://www.redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/never-could-say-goodbye
09/17/09 - 05:13 PM
The summer of ’08, I was the Director and Writer-in-Residence for the Adirondack Summer Workshop in Old Forge. It was such fun and I enjoyed meeting those who participated in the class, most who wanted to make their work-in-progress better. However, there was one student who came to th...
09/11/09 - 08:25 AM
I had a meeting in the city yesterday morning so I was up early and waiting on the LIRR platform for the train, which brought back memories from when I used to commute daily into Manhattan for work. But that all changed in September 2001. I had an office in the Borders Store on Park Avenue a...
09/08/09 - 08:00 AM
I’ve always appreciated the arts and believe they add greatly to our existence. Strike that—rather, I believe that they validate our very being. From music to literature, to painting and photography, it is the creative works that make life so much more bearable. I gave this idea ...
09/06/09 - 09:18 AM
The following review was originally posted on The Huffington Post:
Initially, I...
08/31/09 - 11:07 AM
You're invited to read a stand alone portion from my novel "Of Little Faith."
http://www.redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/of-little-faith-portion-chapter-four
Your feedback is welcome...
08/27/09 - 09:24 AM
Recently, I posted a quote by George Bernard Shaw on my status update on Facebook and got quite a response. Here is that quote that I found from Jon Winokur’s “Writers on Writing” (Running Press): “If you do not write for publication, there is little point in wr...
08/25/09 - 08:06 AM
Seventh and final installment from Chapter One from Of Little Faith
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08/24/09 - 08:23 AM
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08/21/09 - 10:12 AM
A Pastor has doubts. http://redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/fifth-installment-of-little-faith-chapter-one
08/20/09 - 08:43 AM
Here is the 4th installment from the 1st chapter of “Of Little Faith.” http://redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/fourth-segment-of-little-faith-chapter-one
08/19/09 - 07:50 AM
“Of Little Faith” takes a closer look at religion via one family. Here is a link to the 3rd installment from the 1st chapter. I welcome your input. http://www.redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/third-segment-of-little-faith-chapter-one
08/17/09 - 07:30 AM
The 2nd installment from the 1st chapter of the novel “Of Little Faith.” I welcome your input. Here is the link:
http://www.redroom.com/blog/carol-i-hoenig/second-segment-of-little-faith-chapter-one
08/14/09 - 11:33 AM
Of Little Faith by Carol Hoenig
I’ve been away for awhile, but now I’m back and surrounded by the familiarity from my younger days. There is the same coffee table, now scratched with age. Up against the wall near the stairs is the stereo console with the built-in turntable, except ...
08/04/09 - 08:05 AM
There are a variety of books, Web sites, and blogs that provide much material and advice for those who are aspiring to be published writers. I have added to the information in a number of ways, including with the publication of The Author’s Guide to Planning Book Events, and while ther...
08/02/09 - 10:31 AM
I’ve had great success with my novel, Without Grace, which has gone on to win several awards. My follow up book, The Author’s Guide to Planning Book Events, also managed to acquire a couple. However, it is my yet-to-be published novel, Of Little Faith that I’d like to see f...
07/28/09 - 07:35 AM
Last night, actually early evening, I had another date with the ocean—the Atlantic Ocean. We’ve been having a summer rendezvous. For the last couple of weeks, if the weather permits, around five o’clock, I look forward to jumping in my car and taking the ten-minute drive to...
07/27/09 - 07:53 AM
I believe my first introduction to a shock jock was when I heard Howard Stern on the radio years ago. I didn’t listen for very long simply because I thought he was nothing more than an attention-seeking windbag. Apparently, there are many people in our society who love attention-seekin...
07/24/09 - 08:37 AM
How I enjoy novels that I could never have possibly written myself. So is the case for The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon. Quirky and unique, the story toys with the bizarre. It is inventive and one must pay close attention when reading; I cannot say that about all novels I read. Fo...
07/21/09 - 08:06 AM
In some of the articles about the passing of Frank McCourt there is a mention of his participation in the Rock Bottom Remainders. I’d written a piece for Absolute Write a few years back expressing my desire, as facetious as it was, to be a part of this band and decided to share it once...
07/20/09 - 07:50 AM
The following first appeard on The Huffington Post:
We’ve lost a few icons over the last few weeks; most recently Walter Cronkite and then Frank McCourt. I dare say that the world was a better place because of these men and what they accomplished. Mr. Cronkite set the standards in that a corr...
07/17/09 - 07:39 AM
For the last several weeks I have been making good headway writing my memoir and always look forward to getting back to it after I’ve taken a break. When I first began writing it, it was more a diary about my trying to buy back the house my ex and I sold in 2002 due to our divorce agre...
07/15/09 - 08:28 AM
Just yesterday I had a hankering (Don’t you just love that word, hankering?) for the kind of lunch my mother sometimes made for my siblings and me when we were children. So, instead of the usual apple and cheese slices or tuna on lettuce fare that I normally prepare for myself, I decid...
07/14/09 - 07:48 AM
There are two stories today in the New York Times that remind me of my youth. The first is one that I share with the rest of our country. I recall that day in July forty years ago when “we” sent man to walk on the moon. My mom had the television on so that my siblings and I, as w...
07/13/09 - 07:57 AM
Something has been different for me this summertime because the livin’ is easy and the livin’ hasn’t been “summertime” easy for me in quite some time. Don’t get me wrong, my writing and publishing consulting keeps me very busy and I’d say busier than...
07/07/09 - 07:27 AM
Quite some time ago, I printed out rules for a fiction contest sponsored by Esquire. I thought perhaps I’d give it a go, especially since the first prize is publication in Esquire and $2,500. Sweet. In addition to the story having to be original, it must be based on one of three titles...
07/06/09 - 07:36 AM
It’s been quite some time since I’ve read a novel that has kept me so captivated that I talk to anyone willing to listen to me about the book’s premise. And what a premise! The Unit, a novel by Ninni Holmqvist and translated by Marlaine Delargy, takes place in the very near...
07/01/09 - 08:29 AM
Ever since I’d mentioned a book I had read in a blog I wrote for the Huffington Post, which was well over two years ago, I have been getting requests from a number of publicists asking if I’d review an upcoming release. Although I make it clear that I don’t actually review ...
06/29/09 - 07:32 AM
Quite likely, you’ve heard about the author from Sweden who is being sued by J. D. Salinger because he’s written a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. The author, who goes by the pen name of John David California, was recently quoted in the June 22nd issue of Publishers Weekly...
06/27/09 - 04:26 PM
On his Web site, www.minorcon.org, Paul Petersen asks, “…do the brilliant music and his performance skills make up for the indebtedness and questionable personal conduct?”
Of course, Paul was talking about Michael Jackson. Paul is an advocate for protecting children who are in th...