In the past six months, I have lost one aunt and one uncle. My aunt’s death was sudden and unexpected, and my uncle’s—let’s just say he plowed for decades through almost every illness, curse, and disease under the sun, until…
A Long Loss Post
On the Other Side of the Interview Table
Last month, the fine folks at the museum of americana published an excerpt of the novel I am currently shopping around. This month, they asked me a few questions. I got to talk softball, girl power, and the Eighties! What's not…
Worry/Way Through
"I worry when I feel good and giddy about what I’ve written that I’m delusional." How much longer would this great piece by Susannah Felts, "Here Are the Things You Should Worry About While Writing a Novel," become, if passed around…
I Am the Octopus
Sometimes, I am this ghostly creature... living deep in a sea of words, one arm in a memoir, one in a book on marketing, one in a blog post on leadership, one in the stanza of a poem I'm writing,…
For the Love of Interviews
For my novel--like most (aspiring!) novelists, I suppose--I combined a tiny percentage of real life with a huge percentage of the imagined. I also did some research. I watched the entire Ken Burns' Baseball miniseries while at a writers' residency in…
