I’m going to confess something to you. Sometimes I feel like I’m not a “real” writer, because I don’t have an MFA. I am fortunate to have two degrees from wonderful education programs, one in music, and the other in humanistic and multicultural education. I have also taken classes from many excellent writing institutions. But […]
Library Book Haul: Current Stack
I spent another glorious hour in the library last weekend; I’m starting to make it a monthly event. (I’d go even more often, but I bring home so many books each time that I’d probably get panic attacks over the amount of reading material.) Here’s what’s in my current stack: From bottom to top: Unfinished Business […]
How I Research A Historical Novel
When I first decided to write a historical novel, the research was the part I most dreaded. I had written too many research papers in high school and college to look forward to the experience of doing it again, even voluntarily. Especially voluntarily: I thought that the research stage would suck the life out of my desire […]
We Need A New Word For Audiobook Listening
We need a new word, a single word, for this definition: listening to an audiobook. What do you say when you read a book… but it wasn’t with your eyes? Do you say you listened to it? Probably not, because that sounds slightly ridiculous: “I was listening to this book…” It conjures up an image of […]
Are You NaNo-Ing?
It’s National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Writers, are you NaNo-ing? Non-writers, what do you think about this annual tradition? I am not participating this year, nor have I ever done so. I’m not going so far as to say I’ll never NaNo because I’ve often found myself revoking the “nevers” in my life. But right now it’s […]
October Book Review: Life, Death, Royalty and Persistence
Welcome to the October book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! (Disclaimer: I actually finished so many books in October that I’m going to shift some of them into next month’s review. Thank you to library and bookstore binges for supplying great reading material, and my new habit of going […]