With my new book, SOWN IN TEARS, now out and available, I was asked what made me interested in the setting of Russia, 1905. Before you focus on an idea for a novel, you have to be certain that you can live with that story for many months, for me, it’s years. Of course, if […]
As a writer and an American, free speech and access to that speech is of paramount importance. That’s why it’s so hard when something like the offensive video that has caused all the trouble becomes the object of defense. This is not the first time that ugly words meant to hurt and harm have arise […]
Everybody keeps talking about “who build it,” “I did it alone,” “many helped you along the way.” Writers especially are very proprietary about how the work is their own. Well, of course we feel we did it alone, but I’m happy to say that without my mentors, the workshops I participated in, the writers’ retreats […]
