Ruined by Reading
I’m behind the crowd, having just finished Celeste Ng’s (pronounced Ing) first novel, EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU. My plan was to move on to LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, her new […]
fiction
Got Grimm?
Books I love include ones read to my children. Some are classics and some should be.
Write On
When I first decided many years ago to have a try at fiction, I realized that I would have to do things differently from what I knew as a journalist. […]
C’mon Get Appy
Words are my comfort zone, but how do I know what I don’t know? Draw outside the lines, get appy and see what happens.
One Word in Front of the Other
People have asked me “How can you write a novel?” It’s one word in front of the other. “Why don’t you write short stories? That would be so much easier?” […]
The Truth is Out
The best writing comes from that place deep inside, unknown until it is set free. So it is with my new novel, NEELIE’S TRUTH. I did not plan to write […]