writing fiction
Psst!! HAVE YOU ENTERED THE CONTEST TO WIN A COPY OF THIS NOVEL, ALONG WITH MY NEW BOOK, WOULD I LIE TO YOU? Check out my Instagram post with the official contest rules. Contest ends January 31, 2020, at 5 p.m. EST A few chapters into Camille…Read More
Last month, I spent a week at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, in wonderfully weird Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I wrote about my time there last year, marveling at how the entire town seemed to be falling off multiple cliffs and no one was one bit…Read More
I came to the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write. That’s a given. I’m here now. As I type, it’s a postcard-worthy fall day. I’m sitting on a deck about 30 feet high, with tall trees all around, swathed in various shades of orange, red,…Read More
Trying something outside your professional comfort zone is a little bit like running down the street wearing a new pair of running shorts, suspecting the whole time that the shorts may not be covering your bum well enough. But since you can’t see…Read More
I need a sabbatical. I didn’t know that was the word I’d been searching for until I talked to my neighbor, a Lutheran minister. Our kids are friends, and we were all at a community event Saturday night. I asked him how the ministering business was…Read More