My latest historical biography/novel is Patti Callahan Henry’s Once Upon a Wardrobe. This is basically a biography of C.S. “Jack” Lewis, author of the Narnia books and so many more. […]
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Inspiration: Laurie R. King
Another of my favorite authors is Laurie R. King. Her Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russel stories are set just after the Great War and I love all the historical and […]
Sixty Books That Changed My Life
For my 60th birthday (that can’t be right!) I’m emulating Bono from U2. He published 60 songs, but I’m a writer so I have chosen 60 books. I’m going to […]
What I’m Reading: Nonfiction
I’ve been reading a lot lately — some of it is required critique submissions from my writing group of course — but most of it has been nonfiction along the […]
Library Memories
If you’re a writer, you’re a reader. And readers explore their libraries. Here are some of my favorite memories of my childhood library. We didn’t have a lot of money […]
Children’s Book Day
In honor of International Children’s Book Day, here are a few titles I enjoyed as a child (they skew heavily toward animal stories and fantasy):
Read Your Way to Good Writing
There are a lot of “You know you’re a writer when–” sayings out there. You’ve all seen them. There’s one more you might not have seen: You know you’re a […]