I won the Claymore Award! The Claymore is the award for best unpublished manuscript as determined by a jury of…
As Writer in Residence I’ve been asked a lot of questions about publishing. How to get published, how to self…
Last month I took a ‘master class’ in storytelling. It was by an up and coming film writer who just…
Over the last decade the pending death of books has been much ballyhooed (yes, I have now used ballyhoo in…
Each year I try to read at least one new book on craft. It could be on writing novels, or…
I was asked recently to think about why I write. And I wondered, why do we write? What drives us…
This is where I talk about my works in progress and what’s going on in the writing life. Since February…
I’ve written some plot driven books. I’m not ashamed nor proud of it, a lot of best sellers are plot…
This is where I edit my own work or some other poor souls’. (Volunteers? There will be prizes!) This is…
What does it mean when someone says the author has found his or her voice? What’s voice? Why is it…