Dec 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The best things about a local book signing? Getting to see your friends you never see because, life. Meeting people who apparently live in the same town as you do but whom you have never met. The worst things? Figuring out what part of the book to read–you...
Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Once in a while, I see where someone has posted on Facebook or in a blog: “Guess it’s time to start on that book!” All I can say is: I hope you have lots of time! One thing I didn’t realize before setting out on the road of traditional...
Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Once as I was lifting weights at the gym, a man I had never spoken to before strode in. “Hey, True Believer!” he hollered. I am still not sure what he meant. Was I a believer in fitness? In dragging myself to the gym when I really wanted to lie on the...
Nov 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
The evolution: “I just want to have a book published before I die.” “I have a book contract! I don’t care if only my mom reads it, that’s good enough for me!” “So…everybody! I wrote a book! It’s for sale! If you...
Nov 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m at the “wanting to vomit” stage of my new novel. What helps: to look back at the first paragraphs, because they’re good (this helped me a lot through The Geography of Water). Otherwise, there’s always the writer’s favorite...
Nov 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
The young hippie paused at the doorway of the old barn, biting her lip. She had an interview with the rancher who lived here, and if the alternative paper in Portland published it, her couch surfing days might be over. But suddenly her Birkenstocks seemed out of place...
