I have a bizarre relationship with new things. Maybe you can identify with it. I can’t seem to own them very long before they’re damaged. Many years ago my husband and I went out and bought our first really nice, new piece of furniture, a dining room table. We’d had it exactly three days before…
For those of you who love a good horror story, fasten your seatbelts. You’re about to hear a doozy. I must warn you, there are no guts or high-pitched screams, no axes or dark forests, but there is death. Death of ego and pride, dreams and aspirations…no less bloody but maybe less chill bump inducing….
I distinctly remember the first conference I ever went to. I still to this day don’t know how I got the mailing list, but a postcard announcing the conference came shortly after I’d made the decision to pursue a publishing career. It was like I was meant to go. That turned out to be true….
On January 15th, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 departed from LaGuardia airport. In the climb out after takeoff, the plane was struck in both turbofan engines by a flock of Canadian geese. The engines caught fire and lost power immediately. Captain Chesley Sullenberger was forced to ditch the plane moments later in the Hudson River. …
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Ever since the word “platform” began floating around publishing circles, a whole bunch of fiction writers shuddered. Why? Because though we understood the importance of platform, it seemed the way to it for fiction writers, new ones especially, was going to be much, much harder than for non-fiction writers. How do you build a platform…
Recently I walked into my usual coffee house and was looking for a place to sit and work when a woman recognized me and said hello. We chatted for a bit and she said, “Do you do your writing here?” “Almost every day,” I said. “Wow.” She looked truly astonished. “I assumed you worked in…
