Sep 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fire in the Heart has launched. A lot of people have said a lot of nice things. Some people have said nothing, but it’s easy to think your hard-won book is the center of the universe–after all, you have struggled with it for years. I feel like more people...
Aug 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
“You really bared your soul,” a reader wrote after reading Fire in the Heart. Gah! That’s the thing about memoir. Unless you are reading one specifically for nature essays or for descriptions of what it is like to hike a long trail (and there are...
Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
I think the number one question people ask writers is “where do you get your ideas?” I find that ideas are everywhere (it’s just carrying them through to a plot is the hard part). You can get them from news stories, from eavesdropping listening to...
Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi follks, I have entered the horse latitudes of writing. In case you don’t know what horse latitudes are those subtropical areas on the ocean dominated by high pressure and calm winds. Much feared by sailors, these areas meant you sat on a becalmed ship until...
Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is my second time begging asking for blurbs. It never gets easier–you are asking, in some cases, a virtual stranger, to drop everything and read your book, and implied in there is that they will like it and write a nice blurb–but now I have a larger...
Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve been running almost all of my life, and I’ve been writing almost all of my life. Both can be the most wonderful experience ever, when the stars align. A soft, rollercoaster trail, where the miles come effortlessly. A scene where the words appear as if...
