Five Publishing Tips from a Sophomore Novelist
This post was originally published on diymfa.com as a part of the #5onFri series. As I home in on the…
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Writing Rituals: Staying Grounded During Busy Times
This post originally appeared on BooksByWomen.org as "Five Weeks To Book Launch And How My Writing Practice Keeps Me Grounded."…
How the Japanese Tea Ceremony Mirrors the Author/Reader Relationship
On our recent trip to Asia I barely scratched the surface of omotenashi, the Japanese spirit of hospitality, but I…
Women Writers over a Certain Age
The following article was originally published on BooksByWomen.org. A friend suggested recently I write an essay about how one went about…
Book Club: It’s Okay if You Don’t Discuss the Book
The following article was originally published on NovelNetwork.com. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the disparaging…
How Instagram Helps My Writing
I took a “Writing from Personal Experience” class in Cambridge taught by Mopsy Strange Kennedy. An exercise she often assigned…
On Golfing and Writing
If I look back at the woman I was twenty years ago… I never thought I’d love golf. I also…
November means….NaNoWriMo
...it's time for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). In 2016, I committed to writing 2,000 words a day on my…
Handwriting – On and Off the Wall
I attended the Brooklyn Book Festival a few weeks ago on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Two other She Writes Press…