Yes there are dozens of things you can throw at writers. They’ll always find a use for notebooks, they’ll love a fancy pen (even if many don’t write with one…Continue reading5 Gifts for a writer
Coloring books for adults are this year’s surprise smash hit category, and they’re gaining steam heading into the gift-buying season, Jim Milliot writes at Publishers Weekly. The craze that started…Continue readingAdult Coloring Books Craze
At The Telegraph, Michael Deacon offers us Sex, murder and ‘bulbous salutations’ Or, the weirdest moments from ‘List of the Lost’, the former Smiths singer’s unreadable debut novel. Among…Continue readingErotic Curiosities?
Or wait? It’s an ever-vexing quandary. Should you start a series when the first book is out and then bite your nails as you wait for each new installment? Or…Continue readingRead it now?
I’m off to New Hampshire to be a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Writing Workshop to give a class on building characters. I’d like to bring along some of my…Continue readingTelling off the author
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?
Travel by Book Several books and movies have sparked my wish to travel. In books, it was Pearl Buck’s stories of China, “Out of Africa” by Isak Dinesen, and Walter…Continue readingWhat inspires?
Facing declining visitors and uncertainty about what to do about it, library administrators in in the Netherlands did something extraordinary, Cat Johnson writes at Dailygood.org.They tossed out traditional methods of…Continue readingLibrary or bookstore?
When I was a little girl one in my family’s extensive collection of 45 rpm singles — remember those? turntables? vinyl? — was a record of Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite.…Continue readingI will walk with you…
A reader in Spain, Amy P, posted this note on Goodreads about my miracle novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei: Cuarta vez que leo este libro y no será la última.…Continue readingMy God: It’s been 10 years?