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Red Herrings

And how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]

The first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]

As you know, I love Vanity Fair. At the back of the magazine is a “Proust Questionnaire” where they ask[…]

…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]

Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]

Signs and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]

Who said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]

Miss Demeanor blogger C. Michele Dorsey wrote a post earlier this week titled, Writers Who Left a Hole in My[…]

Earlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]

It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the writing duo known as Lily Charles. Libby Ware and Charlene Ball use[…]