Classify me I’ve been published by traditional mainstream publishers like HarperCollins, small publishers like Crossroad Press, through collectives like Book View Café, and I have self-published. My books can be…Continue readingWhat kind of books do I write? Well …
Someone in my hometown is putting together a reading series and sent me an email asking whether I wanted to participate. I said sure, and asked if they had any…Continue readingWhy is ‘genre’ a dirty word?
When I was a little girl, my home town library h?d only two sections – children’s, which I blew through in a spectacular fashion, and adult. We had no such…Continue reading‘Young Adult’, what’s that?
… get your ideas/write a book?’ One of the perennial questions posed to authors in many many many interviews is the fabled “Where do you get your ideas?” I too…Continue readingHow do you…
After the exhilaration brought on by the massive Women’s March, I found it both amusing and infuriating to browse through these Postcards warning men about the dangers of women’s rights…Continue readingDangerous Women
The New Jersey bookstore Inkwood has a list of reading resolutions for 2017. Here’s my own handful of resolutions – your mission, should you choose to accept it. 1) If…Continue readingRead it! Now!
Unh… 20 Killer Series? It’s satisfying to have a stand-alone book. When you are writing it, that’s the story, and when you’re done you’re done. You can go onto something…Continue reading20 Serial Killers?
At Strange Horizons, Kari Sperring writes about Katherine Kurtz. Matrilines: The Woman Who Made Fantasy “Kurtz’s debut novel, Deryni Rising, came out from Ballantine Books in 1970,” Sperring writes, “…and…Continue readingThe womanless cannon
At Bustle, Becky Schultz talks about the 11 Books You’d Find On Lisa Simpson’s Shelf because she has great literary taste. For example: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan After…Continue readingWhat Lisa Simpson Reads
The comic Manfeels Park takes comments from men on the internet and puts them into scenes from Jane Austen’s stories, Jenna Guillaume of BuzzFeed reports. The comic is the brainchild…Continue readingMen’s Lib in Austen