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Please take a moment today to read author and journalist Helen Benedict’s insightful, new essay on the moral oxymoron of the Iraq war, and how veterans and civilians alike might go forth in [...]

Dear Friends, Tuesday, May 27th marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of Flashes of War. In celebration, I’m dubbing this day BOOK EVENT #52 and conducting it  from the [...]

If the writing life wasn’t also my career… If the success of a first book wasn’t a platform for a second book… If I didn’t need an advance to jump-start my next-step [...]

Dear Martha Stewart, Aren’t you proud? All this on a shoestring…and I’ve quadrupled my bedroom square footage! I personally thought the white Christmas lights were a nice touch [...]

I guess when big life changes happen, there can be a ripple effect. The same day I bought the new-to-me 2007 Toyota Prius that’s now my sole vehicle, Brad proposed. I had no idea the [...]

I know I’m a writer but sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words… Or maybe just one: YES!

I don’t know very many writers who can go over to their parents’ house and say, “Hey Dad, you know that one famous interview Hemingway gave in The Paris Review? I’ve never [...]

On the heels of writing my first-ever synopsis of my novel, another request came: What is your vision for the novel? I can’t post my synopsis, as that would be a bit ill-advised while still [...]

The novel–both its storyline and its role in my life–has taken over my sleep. Sometimes, to positive effect; two nights ago I dreamt a scene with a Taliban soldier pulling a tooth out [...]