Last month, I had the opportunity to attend a southern (US) fiction panel at my favorite annual event—the Mississippi Book Festival. I missed the first few minutes of that panel. (In my defense, I was meeting Ann Patchett and handing her a copy of my novel—and might...
In an attempt to be more organized and serve you better, I decided to set specific topics for each week of the month. This is our first reader-specific post and will be a summer recap and book launch update. I have so many topics I look forward to writing about during...
You’ve got a style unique to you. A fashion style. A work style. A social style. So many types of styles! My question for you is: do you know what your style is? And, if you do, have you learned to embrace it? These are some questions I’ve been answering for myself...
Perhaps I’ve convinced you that writing book reviews is worth your time. I hope so! Over the past few months, I’ve experienced frustration with poorly written or unhelpful reviews, irritation with reviews whose ratings are based on personal preferences—from people who...
Spend more than a few seconds around books and the quirky individuals who write them, and you will hear a plea for book reviews. As a reader, you may wonder what the big deal is. Are they really that important? Why should you write them? And, how on earth do you do...
Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
