Writer’s Digest feature
An article about me and my book, Something Missing, appears in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest. It’s great. A full-page article that includes a photograph of me (27 pounds…
Odd business combinations
I spent the evening at the Latchis Hotel in Brattleboro, Vermont, for a writing and booksellers’ conference. My publicist arranged the accommodations, so I was unfamiliar with the hotel when…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
I don’t often recommend books sight unseen, but I saw this book on the NY Times bestseller list (trade paperback) and couldn’t resist immediately purchasing it. It’s published by Quirk…
Drippy and syrupy and just plain inexplicable
Being a novelist and an English major, I truly believe that I love books just about as much as a person can, and while I hate to criticize the legitimacy…
Collection of ideas
I have a very important Word document saved on my desktop which contains ideas for blog posts, a long list of children’s book ideas, notes for a future memoir, a…
Best place to think
I can’t explain it, and it might sound a bit cliché, but I make more breakthroughs in my writing while in the shower than anyplace else. Today’s shower yielded an…
What type are you?
Rocket Bomber describes the seven types of bookstore customers. I lean towards being "Independent" (anytime I must stop my current audiobook to interact with human beings annoys me) with strong…
Guilt-free book club
My book club has been attempting to arrange a meeting time after a six-month hiatus, during which my daughter Clara was born. The following is a string of emails we…
Customer reviews of “Something Missing”
Reviews of SOMETHING MISSING have begun to pop up on Amazon as part of their Vine Program. Amazon describes this program like this: Amazon Vine is a program that enables…
Twenty-car pile-up of ideas in my head
I’m not sure how or when I’ll use this in a story, but I am fascinated by the idea of slugging, a term used to describe a unique form of…
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