Let me tell you about my encounter with Coyote… So begins my guest blog today at the Mythical Monday spot at Melissa Hayden’s website My World…in words and pages: the-kunadalin…Continue readingEncounters with The Trickster
After discussing at length J.K. Rowling’s regrets about the Hermione/Ron relationship in Harry Potter, Elizabeth Minkel wrote in The Millions about five other authors who said they really wished they’d…Continue readingThe author regrets…
Some last lines have the power to disrupt the course of an entire story, shaking up our expectations, the Huffington Post tells us. Others leave us hanging, and still others…Continue readingWhat’s your favorite last line?
Then forget champagne and candlelight dinners, Joni Rendon Shannon McKenna Schmidt write at the Daily Beast. Photo by Courtesy Everett Collection Writers—from Colette to Casanova to Raymond Chandler—and their significant…Continue readingWant to Seduce Like a Writer?
Maria Popova has assembled famous definitions of love from 400 years of literary history in a Brain Pickings article just in time for Valentine’s Day. They range from the profoundly…Continue readingDo you know what love is?
When I wrote my signature novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei, I considered it a fantasy. It’s roots lie in the world of Imperial China and the secret language of women…Continue readingJust what is alternate history?
Miriam Tuliao at the York Public Library gives us a list of 25 books that have “offered unique insights about the world around us and changed the course of human…Continue readingThe books that changed history?
Image credit: ThinkStock Hemingway believed “the best writing [happen when you are in love,” which might explain his serial marriages, while others found that romantic tumult spurred their creativity, Shannon…Continue reading10 Tempestuous Writerly Romances
Even in our digital age, live storytelling has a spellbinding effect, Richard Hamilton says in Daily Good. Hamilton, a radio broadcaster, wonders whether radio or any recording device can ever…Continue readingTell me a story
Weight of Worlds, my collection of 11 tales of magic, cruelty, and sacrifice, is free in ebook form until Feb. 5. But, for the moment, only on the Kindle, I’m…Continue readingWhen the magic is free