Today I want to sing the praises of Richmond, Virginia’s writing community! I’m fortunate to be surrounded by poets, novelists,…
The other day while reading Raymie Nightengale by Kate DiCamillo, I hit a passage that from a craft…
In a July 2016 article in Toronto’s Metro News, writer Richard Crouse recounts a joke told by world-class cellist Yo-Yo…
How’s this for serendipity? When I met conference keynoter Padma Venkatraman at the James River Writers conference in October 2016,…
One day when I was about eight years old and a friend’s mom was driving the carpool, she drove off…
This week’s Writing Show, “Editing for Emotional Impact,” presented by James River Writers, was like a cornucopia of craft tips,…
This month, I caught up with Ruta Sepetys, recently home from a two-month book tour for her latest…
The Halfway House for Writers is a book I’ll read again. And again. And again. Like Anne Lamott’s Bird by…
If you read only one book this summer, make it Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County. Part memoir,…
Oops, I did it again. No, no, I haven’t broken a guy’s heart à la Britney Spears, but I’ve repeated the…