Back-of-the-Book Indexer
This morning I hop on a train to the AWP Conference and Book Fair in Chicago! It’s time to put my iPad blogging skills (and Blogsy app) to use by “blogging” the conference; I’ll be posting updates on sessions, the book fair, and anything else of interest (WiFi access permitting). Here is my tentative list …
I am very grateful to the welcoming and enthusiastic students, teachers, staff, and parents at Swallow School in Hartland, Wisconsin, for inviting me to be their guest author today. What fun the morning was! To help them to kick off a school-wide writing contest, I spoke to three different groups of students, ranging from kindergarten …
Oscar Micheaux, the focus of my children’s historical novel, Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, not only broke ground as a homesteader and filmmaker, he also was an indie author. Patrick McGilligan writes in his biography of Micheaux that after receiving only “bulky rejections,” Oscar eventually self-published his first novel, The Conquest: The Story …
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche This post is for a friend who is struggling with her writing at the moment. Sometimes we all feel like chucking it in. We think about how much easier our life would be without the urge to write, the need …
I am patiently waiting for my husband to finish reading Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, so that I can have my turn. In the meantime, I guess I’ll make some oatmeal. After enjoying the most smooth, richly textured hot breakfast cereal imaginable on our trips to London over the years, I finally decided to …