Note: I’m excited to be able to give away a free copy of The Bird Sisters with a bookplate signed by Rebecca! Just leave a comment on this post before midnight, Friday, April 15th to enter. I’ll choose a name at random and announce the winner on April 16th. “On a particularly low morning…” This …
A quick post today to share a link to a video about Wisconsin author Ilsa J. Bick, who switched careers at midlife from psychologist to writer. The voyage was slow at first, but it took off when she won a Star Trek writing contest. Watch the news feature at Local Author Gets Rave Reviews. Learn …
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective This post is for a writer friend who …
Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf: “She was the one who opened the door. When I read To the Lighthouse, I felt, Heavens, what is this? I was so excited by the experience I couldn’t sleep or eat. I’ve read it many times since, though more often these days I go back to her diary. Any …
“In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns.” The above …