Bookstore-free zone
Last week, someone from Seventh Street Books, my publisher, asked me for my hometown. This in itself is a complex question, because I lived in the country when I was [...]
Great book for writing to readers
I just read a great book about how fiction works in and on the brain, a great tool for writing to engage readers. Writing to engage readers, she says. Someone [...]
Printers Row 2013
This past weekend I went to Printers Row Lit Fest. I've been before, many times. This year, though, I was an AUTHOR. Check it. That is my Chuck Taylor, and [...]
Bots
I had to add a Captcha to this site to fight off the bots. All the time I wanted to spend writing a post went to cleaning out the spam. [...]
Book math
So I need to write a book. Another one. Forget that one for a while. I'll tell you when it's commercially available, don't worry. THIS book, this unwritten one, I [...]
Advice
With my book coming out next year, I find myself in a new position. Giving advice. I mean, if you know me, you know I like to give advice. Maybe [...]
Should have kept up my study of Russian
I just spent a great deal of time going through old "comments" waiting for approval for this site. Mostly indecipherable Russian (16 college credits, and all I can pick out [...]
Carried in my purse a week before I had the time to share it
I found this quote in a magazine and tore out the page. "I have an image in my head: I'm holding a small bowl in my two cupped hands and [...]
So…
I dropped the bomb about my book being published at last and then nothing. For weeks. I wish I could tell you about all the writing I've been doing, but [...]
How to get your novel published
New site in honor of my big news: My first novel, at this time titled The Black Hour, will be published by Seventh Street Books in summer of 2014. I've [...]
