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…
A word by any other name is not a word
The English language acquired its one millionth word today. Sort of. According to the Global Language Monitor, a website that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are…
Popularity contest
The Guardian asks: Who is the most famous fictional character of all time? Tough question, and I guess it depends upon what genres are included in the decision-making process and…
New use for “Something Missing,” I think.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder what people are thinking.
A teacher forever
Last night my fifth-grade students performed Julius Caesar using an abbreviated but otherwise unaltered version of Shakespeare’s original script. I’ve been teaching Shakespeare to my second, third, and now fifth…
Loving librarians
Thanks to my blessed Google alerts, I discovered some librarians chatting favorably about Something Missing. I can’t express how simultaneously surreal and rewarding it is to find strangers online discussing…
Another review!
And a great one, too. This one is from the June 1 issue of Kirkus Reviews, a “respected, authoritative pre-publication review source within the literary and film industries,” according to…
Solving problems
My wife recently described my writing process like this: You approach writing like you approach life: As a problem solver. You create complex and elaborate problems for your characters, and…
Second review!
The second review of Something Missing was forwarded to me today, a starred review (the highest praise a book can receive in this publication) in the June 1 issue of…
First review
My first review came out today in Publisher’s Weekly. Though it contains some criticism which I will attempt to process over the coming days, the review is quite positive and…
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