Writing lessons and the writing life
My short story, “Storms of Light and Shadow,” will be available in the Star Stepping anthology from WildChild, debuting on June 3. For more information on the anthology, please visit WildChild Publishing.
I’ve also got an interview up at Debbie Mumford’s blog. Read the whole series here. She’s going to have interviews up of all the authors in the [...]
$4 gasoline? The horror! Forget that Europe has been paying twice that and more per gallon forever. No, when US drivers feel pain at the pump, then everyone starts saying that the apocalypse has happened and the sky is falling. I think we can all see how, um, insular and self-centered such a worldview is.
But [...]
I’m kind of boggled at the mostly unfavorable reviewer response to Prince Caspian. K and I thought it was better than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, which we also loved, and A allowed that it was pretty good (high praise indeed coming from an almost-thirteen year old).
So here’s why I liked it. They [...]
Today the Lis buried their daughter, a victim of the Chinese earthquake, and their grief is emblematic of an entire nation’s sorrow. China has played many roles lately, among them the oppressors of Tibet, deliverer of poisoned food and medicine, hosts of the pollution Olympics, and the most evocative, Beast from the East, but the face of the Lis [...]
By now, most of you who know me * know that I have a conflicted relationship with the practice of yoga. As I’ve said in the past, yoga makes me tense. All that breathing that needs to be coordinated with movement and all the while you have to think mindfully and deeply and yet let your [...]
I had queried 48 agents and a handful of editors, and I had gotten very little response. A few had asked for the first three chapters, but mostly I got initial interest from my query letter and then either a form or a personalized rejection. No, however, means no, and I had started to make [...]
Fifty was the magic number. I told myself I was going to query 50 agents and if I didn’t find an agent or a publisher at the end of that time then it was time to move on.
My reasoning was this. I had done a lot of research and had read in a couple of [...]
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