None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
When you’ve been a writing teacher for as long as I have, it’s impossible to read a novel, especially a[…]
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When you’ve been a writing teacher for as long as I have, it’s impossible to read a novel, especially a[…]
Read moreWhen I decided to put my books into Audible, I searched for the right narrator for the Trudy Genova Mysteries.[…]
Read more“Doesn’t pay attention in class.”
That was a common remark on my school report cards, along with “tends to daydream,” and “head in the clouds.” I know because my mom was a saver, and I still have a box of those early evaluations. To her credit, I don’t remember a single time she berated me for not coming home with all A’s.
The first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
Read moreOne could argue that all fiction is autofiction, to a degree. After all, we can only experience the world through[…]
Read moreAward-winning novelist Elizabeth Crowens has kindly stopped by to answer some questions about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes[…]
Read moreWho said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]
Read moreHaving a school age kid has meant that my vacations generally rotate around school breaks. As a result, last week[…]
Read moreNo, I’m not writing about college presidents and billionaire wives’ dissertations. I’m writing about plagiarism as plot in some of[…]
Read moreThe place we keep our treasured books varies from reader to writer, providing inspiration and research, but who knew bookshelves[…]
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