The summer convention season is in full swing, and I will be appearing at two cons — ApolloCon in Houston and ArmadilloCon in Austin. I will post my schedules as soon as I know them. I’m running the ApolloCon writers workshop and teaching at the ArmadilloCon workshop (run by the Read more…
Words: 1,200 Music: Bach violin concertos I was thinking about this recently because of screenwriter Josh Olson’s blog in The Village Voice. Among Olson’s many pearls of wisdom there is this: It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, Read more…
The New Yorker has an article on Nora Roberts this week. Well worth it to seek it out. I was left feeling utterly inadequate — the woman is a machine, writes for 6 to 8 hours a day, fueled on cigarettes and aspartame, and produces at least four new books Read more…