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Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
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Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
Read moreSigns and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]
Read moreWho said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]
Read moreMiss Demeanor blogger C. Michele Dorsey wrote a post earlier this week titled, Writers Who Left a Hole in My[…]
Read moreEarlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]
Read moreIt’s my pleasure to introduce you to the writing duo known as Lily Charles. Libby Ware and Charlene Ball use[…]
Read morePreviously, I blogged about four criminal cases crime writers should watch if they wanted to see first-hand the world[…]
Read moreWe’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]
Read moreFor the past year and change I’ve worked on a new novel. I loved the story. I loved writing it.[…]
Read moreTurn, Turn, Turn.When I begin plotting a new book, I decide on the time of year for it to take[…]
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