Just imagine a beautiful Los Angeles afternoon, downtown in the new green space called the Grand Avenue Park, just between the Music Center and City Hall, holding the first annual Book Festival. It was a tribute to independent book publishers, sellers, authors and poets. Music, games and story telling for children, readings for the adults, […]
I’ve found in the two novels I’ve written, that my story is an on-going journey for each of my characters. Some writers I’m sure like to tie up all the details in a book, so the reader knows exactly what the ending is and where the characters will be going. I don’t find life to […]
Hacking, auto mishap, computer glitch – what a way to start the New Year. But with today’s technology, these have become normal events to be endured and overcome. Even technology can’t be relied on. I remember the first time the computer went out in the midst of writing FLYING OUT OF BROOKLYN. OMG, what am […]
I am so often years behind in my reading. For instance I just read Wallace Stegner’s “Crossing to Safey,” a novel about four friends, which is quiet, observant, with great depth, but little action. His descriptions are infinite and beautiful, writing the way I’d like to, with details, metaphors, bringing you right into the scene. […]
This Thanksgiving I joined friends on a week-long cruise. We all started the conversation, by saying, “I’m not really a cruise person but….” Then we all agreed to go, seven adults and two kids. I believe it’s the obligation of a writer to experience different cultures, taste new foods, see lots of places, not necessarily […]
I’m always amazed at the people who start out in life knowing what they want to do and where they’re going. Sometimes I’ve envied their focused passion while I was still all over the place, going from one career to another. But lately I’ve been reflecting on the unexpected paths I’ve taken and begun to […]
Not being a mother, it’s probably dangerous to equate anything with giving birth to a child. Mothers around the world will gird up and unite in taking me down for my presumptuousness. But to a writer, a musician, a painter or any creative person, the time and pangs you go through in order to bring […]
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 […]
