Today I am lucky enough to be interviewed on Christi Craig’s blog (which sports a spiffy new design!), so please head on over there, and be sure to check out the rest of her site and as well as her post from yesterday on the group blog Writing Up an Appetite about “When Cooking Takes …
From Oscar’s Gift: I liked it best when he talked about the moving pictures. He described the moving picture The Great Train Robbery so many times that I felt I’d seen it myself and could replay it in my dreams. I imagined myself hiding with the masked bandits behind the water tower, waiting for the …
On September 1, 2011, Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, a work of historical fiction for middle grades, will be available as an ebook. After giving this blog a bit of a rest for much of July, on Monday, August 1st, I will begin a month-long publication-countdown series about e-publishing: what led me to …
I am honored today to feature an interview with Kelsey Ketch, whose historical young adult novel Death’s Island is represented by Bree Ogden of Martin Literary Management. Kelsey is as generous as she is talented, and I know that her commitment to a writing life will inspire others to finish—or start—whatever work of passion is knocking at your heart’s door.
I’m frustrated. Much of my writing is going well, but one big project continues to elude me: the book based on my great aunt’s diaries. I write snatches and scenes, try out points of view, past and present tense, different voices. I ping pong between thinking the work should be historical fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, …