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**Flashes of War was just given a highly favorable review from esteemed UK author Vanessa Gebbie in Flash: The International Short Story Magazine. Learn more about the publication here.** Eight [...]

I’m working on it. I’m getting closer. The 3 1/2 days I had slated to “go after the novel revision” were vastly re-envisioned after my personal reality check and [...]

I’ve never been directionless. I can say this with confidence. And so to be 35…to be on the heels of a year-long book tour…to be fully self-employed…to be very good at [...]

Jeff Vandermeer has something very smart to say in Wonderbook about the fact that it’s wise to create the shortest distance between the creative thought and the page. In the context of [...]

I want this book so bad, I could eat it. It’s a fine balance for me, my reading list, as I’m always juggling three balls in the air: books by authors I will be presenting with, books [...]

I used to look at my married friends and want to ask: What part of yourself did you give up when you got married? I know that sounds horrible, but for my artist friends who spent their twenties [...]

Last week, I wrote about knowing when you need help in your novel revisions. I’m two years into the first sparks of The Longest Day of the Year and now, two editors as well. Not the [...]

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 [...]