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"The Oprah Winfrey Show" to Promote A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle on Three Upcoming Shows As the World Gears Up for Oprah's First-Ever Live Interactive Webcast

Oprah Winfrey interviews Dutton President and Publisher Brian Tart as part of a segment on the phenomenon of the Oprah's Book Club selection and webcasts on tomorrow's show - which will also feature interviews with celebrities who love the #1 New York Times bestseller, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, and two members of Oprah's Book Club from the US. A New Earth and the webcast will also be promoted next week, on the Monday, February 25th show. Then Thursday, February 28th, Oprah will devote the last segment of her show to message board comments about A New Earth and the upcoming webcast.

Beginning March 3rd, Oprah Winfrey will join author and renowned spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle to teach a free, live interactive webinar exclusively on Oprah.com. Each weekly class will correspond to a chapter from A New Earth, with the discussion focusing on the chapter's themes. The 10 weekly sessions will be webcast every Monday night from March 3 through May 5, at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT. To register for the class, log onto www.oprah.com/anewearth.

 

 

» Dan Koeppel discusses his book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World.

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Whenever I hear the expression, "Write what you know," I always wish I knew something more exciting. For example, one of my creative writing students used to be a stripper and I've always envied her. How could you write a boring novel about stripping? (You probably could-but it would take some effort.)

For better or worse, the things I know are decidedly less salacious: how to be a mother, daughter, wife, teacher-and this last was one of the important experiences I drew on when writing my novel. I've been teaching creative writing for Gotham Writers' Workshop (in Manhattan) for more than six years, which means that I have met more than one thousand people who want to learn to be writers.

Any successes in that bunch?

A few, if what you mean by success is that they went on and got a story published.