Posts Tagged ‘the perfect comeback of caroline jacobs’
Today I feel like a real author – which doesn’t happen often – and not for any reason that you might imagine.
I’m not sure if other authors feel this way, but most days, I don’t feel like a real author. Its ridiculous but true. I’ve published three novels – two with Doubleday and one with St. Martin’s Press – and I have a fourth publishing in September. My last book was translated into more than 25…
Read MoreCOVER REVEAL: The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
It’s already popped up on Amazon, IndieBound, Goodreads, and the usual bookish places, so let’s make it official. Here it is – the cover of my next novel. It hits bookstores on September 8, 2015. I hope you’re as thrilled with the cover as I am.
Read MoreThe best way to stop a novelist dead in his tracks
Want to know what will stop a novelist from finishing the final tweaks of his manuscript? His five year-old daughter teaching his two year-old son how to tell bad knock knock jokes. It’s the worst.
Read MoreWorking hard for the money: 2014 update
A few years ago, I posted a list of all the jobs I have held in my life in chronological order. It was an interesting exercise that I highly recommend. Things have changed since I first posted the list, so here is my updated list: 1. Farm laborer, Blackstone, MA: When I was 12-years old,…
Read More“Where do you get your ideas?” is an understandable but impossible-to-answer question for authors. But “Nuns at Scout camp” will be one of my answers someday.
I’m often asked where I get my ideas for books, which is an understandable but impossible question to answer. There is no well of ideas. There is no secret formula. There is no one answer to that question, as much as fledgling writers seem to want there to be. Simply put, I hear something. I…
Read MoreDone.
When my wife doesn’t like something I’ve written, she tilts her head, squints her eyes and rereads, as if doing so will make it look better. I fear that look. I despise that look. But it also forces me to do things like rewrite the last two chapters of my current manuscript, thus changing the…
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