Today I updated my reading lists (on the right side of the blog), and I want to share a book I am now reading: The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover. Ever since I began working on the book that only I can write, I have been on the lookout for other works that are based on …
Ben Myers, in a piece in the Guardian yesterday on the public role of the private writer, bemoans the fact that “we’re living in era where a writer can’t just write. They have to be out there.” No kidding. Last spring I attended a local writers’ conference. I hadn’t been to one in a few …
Serendipity: The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery ~ Oxford English Dictionary Supper is finished (eggplant and garbanzo beans), I have a phone conference call in half an hour, and I was planning to write this post about introverted writers and the …
“Publishing doesn’t change your life or make it easier to write.” ~ Heather Sellers I just finished reading Page after Page, by Heather Sellers, and while I’m going to wait to post a full review, today I want to share a passage from the latter part of the book. Heather writes that, on average, each …
Thank you to everyone who participated my book giveaway event last week! Kristi Helvig’s name drawn to win free copies of A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Teens and The Smart Teens’ Guide to Living with Intensity. You can follow her author blog and book and movie review blog, and read an interview with her on …