The Writing Life

From 2010-2012, I spent 21 out of 36 months on the road, hopping from writing residency to writing residency, drafting Flashes of War. I didn’t know yet that I’d become a fiction [...]

I spent the New Year with my first official experience as a working author-mother “out there” in the world, trying on both hats at the same time. I can’t think of a better place [...]

I suspect that our lives have all changed greatly since the election. Here inside our family home, the worldview has shifted to the micro: an inconceivably small fingernail, the few minutes [...]

It’s a quiet, dark joke between writers that “fewer than 1% of Pushcart Prize nominees” ever actually WIN the prize. I don’t know whether that’s urban legend or [...]

I was invited to write a guest blog post for SmokeLong Quarterly’s “Flash, Back” series, which asks writers to discuss flash fiction that may be obscure or printed before the term “flash [...]

Today, I’m delighted to be featured as a guest blogger for Feedblitz, the company I trust to deliver my e-course content, teach me about social media management, and answer the Help phone [...]

A hot topic of conversation between this year’s 7 writers enrolled in my Monthly Mentorship program has to do deciphering what our characters actually want. From there, it’s up to the [...]

Want to skip right to the guide? Download the PDF here–that’s free. Interested in going deeper? This hour-long webinar explores how to have conversations you care about, connecting [...]

Take pause. Listen for an answer. Keep listening. Make art in response. That’s all I know to do. And perhaps this–give this video 8 minutes and consider how much history we’ve [...]

This month’s free lunch hour webinar will feature a discussion of effective stewardship and marketing techniques, pertinent to those of us who wish to achieve a balanced creative life. Here [...]