This month, I caught up with Ruta Sepetys, recently home from a two-month book tour for her latest…
People often ask writers: where do you get the ideas for your stories? And I say: ideas. Blah. So overrated.…
When I was a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I heard Jane Kurtz, the…
For months I’ve been trying to find the right opening for the novel I started in 2013, and I think…
I’m big on beginning novels in media res (in the middle of things), meaning jumping into a scene…
If you read only one book this summer, make it Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County. Part memoir,…
I should complete a first draft before deciding on my opening lines. I know I know I know this, but…
I recently read and commented on a number of submissions for Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts’ journal for…
What a joy to feature Wendy Wan-Long Shang on my blog today! Wendy is the author of the award-winning novel…
We live in a 45 year-old house just beyond the county utility lines, so we’ve got a septic tank out…