by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is my author blog. It’s 100% public. I do my best not to post offensive things here, but I am a woman with strong convictions, especially about the rights of women. I was also, at one time, a journalism major, though I eventually segued into literature and...
by admin | Nov 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s not quite the end of the year, and I’m anticipating significant reading time immediately ahead of me—what with Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays imminent—but I thought I’d post a retrospective on my 2014 reads now, with an update to come at the end of December,...
by admin | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s a great way to meet your favorite writers. Writers tend to be a bunch of recluses. With the decline of physical books and brick-and-mortar bookstores–where readers used to attend new release signings–most reader-author interaction has shifted to...
by admin | May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Writers should be read—but neither seen nor heard. – Daphne du Maurier When I decided two years ago to write seriously for publication (as opposed to writing literary stories that few, if anyone, would ever read), I discovered that a notable chunk of my already...
by admin | May 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Even years after the debut of the e-book, people continue to bemoan the decline of the NY-published hardback and brick-and-mortar bookstores like Barnes & Noble, but plenty of us have come to embrace the many benefits that going digital offers us as readers.* For...
by admin | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
As an avid, but general, reader—and by avid, but general, versus professional reader, I mean that in addition to being a part-time writer, holding down a full-time job (teaching reading and writing to teenagers), maintaining a rewarding marriage, keeping a house...
