This month, I caught up with Ruta Sepetys, recently home from a two-month book tour for her latest…
When I was a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I heard Jane Kurtz, the…
Last week, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley won the Newbery Honor Award for her middle grade novel, The War that Saved my Life, and just this…
Oops, I did it again. No, no, I haven’t broken a guy’s heart à la Britney Spears, but I’ve repeated the…
My agent recently had this to say about my current work-in-progress: she couldn’t identify with my main character and couldn’t…
After attending an excellent James River Writers panel discussion (“The Writing Show”) and Master Class in April with authors John…
Listen to these lines from the first page of Caminar, Skila Brown’s debut novel in verse: Our village sat in…
It’s true what they say: to write well, you have to read well. And often. And widely, and not just…
Novelist Elmore Leonard passed away this month, leaving behind forty-some books and his “Ten Rules of Writing.” I agree with…
Through the Osher Institute at the University of Richmond, from time to time my friend, Jan, teaches a class called “In Search…