I’m finding it difficult to remove myself from daily events and isolate myself into writing. It’s been hard enough trying to define the story of the next book although I have the characters, the location and the time, it’s just not coalescing. And so I’m much more vulnerable to the effects of everyday horror. Daily […]
A recent article I read in Writers Unblocked talked about “pantsing” which they described as writing spontaneously and hoping that a story will emerge. They made it sound crazy, as if this was the hope of some irrational writer. I guess that’s me. I’ve never been one to outline a story or book. I start […]
Janet Fitch always said when I was in her workshop, that you must write an hour a day, no matter what. If you didn’t exercise the muscle it would atrophy. 2014 has tested that theory to the extreme for me. It’s been so hard to even sit at the computer and stare at the blank […]
I haven’t posted since August and here it is December, with Chanukah just past and Christmas and New Year’s on the way. How could it be 2014 when I haven’t gotten used to writing 2013 on checks or correspondence? To be perfectly honest the last date I really paid attention to was the coming of […]
Beverly Magid talks about her new book, SOWN IN TEARS set in Russia, 1905, a turbulent time of unrest and rampant anti-semitism. After an attack on her village, Leah Peretz is alone to care for her two young children. Her life is further complicated by the unexpected attentions of a Russian officer, who is drawn […]
interviewI’ve just signed up to participate in a book festival sponsored by the Friends of the Duarte Library to sell my novels, SOWN IN TEARS and FLYING OUT OF BROOKLYN (It’s October 5, 10am-4pm, Duarte is just past Pasadena, if you’re in California). I’ve done book reading/signings at libraries before for both books, but this […]
This, of course, is just my opinion, and not having tried a memoir of my own, I know it’s all much harder than it looks. But having read, or tried to read a few recently, I do know what I’m hoping to find in someone else’s memoir. A good friend, Janice Van Horne’s book, “A […]
The protagonists of my two novels (FLYING OUT OF BROOKLYN and SOWN IN TEARS) have been young Jewish females, at different historical times, but both faced with problems of independence and changes in their lives. With the controversy kicked up by the book, “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg, everyone is re-thinking what’s important to women, […]
