Publishers don’t always know best. One publisher sent this helpful little missive to Ursula K. Le Guin regarding her novel, The Left Hand of Darkness: “The book is so endlessly…Continue readingPublishers know best? Ha!
Writing advice is… well… cheap. You can find it everywhere. It’s mostly harmless, as far as it goes, but then – sometimes – I come across a list, ‘10 things…Continue readingWriting advice you should not heed
First there was Judith Tarr’s comment on writer’s block – the real thing, not just, oh, I don’t feel like doing this today – and I’ve been there, done that,…Continue readingIs it something in the water?
Have you read a good book lately? Then share it. Writing is a time-intensive and solitary thing. it takes a long time for a book to be conceived, written, polished,…Continue readingLike a book? Tell the world
I have had available for some time, a number of Alexander Triads, short books containing three of my short stories each. They are superb for short reads, but some of…Continue readingTriple Triads plus 3
Letters from the Fire, a novel I wrote with my now husband a century ago — well, in 1999 — has been available as an e-book on Kindle for some…Continue readingLetters from the Fire
My young adult series, Worldweavers, about Thea Winthrop, a teen who can do no magic in a magical world, was first published by HarperCollins in the heady days when every…Continue readingA new old Worldweavers
Send to Kindle What comes first, the plot, the idea behind the plot, the problem, the setting, the character?? Which is the most important, the most essential, tool? For me,…Continue readingA Question of Character