The Self-Made Writer

Most of my writing life has been a waste of time. I mean this in the nicest possible way. An efficiency expert would produce a dismal repor...

There are books about how to read as a writer, but I haven’t yet read one. It’s not interest I lack, but time. Like Joshua Bodwell, author o...

Ethereal, bewitching, seductive  - thus have reviewers praised  Alaska  author  Eowyn Ivey’s  best-selling debut novel  The Snow Child .  I...

Isn’t it wonderful, being a writer? The joy! The freedom!  Anywhere, anytime, inspiration may strike.  And we’re ready, with our notepads an...

A dozen years had passed since my first novel came out, and for the benefit of a group of students I was launching into my spiel of how the ...

Lynn Freed had a problem most writers would die for: upon publication of her second book, her editor and agent were clamoring for the next...

We’ve been dumped on this winter, record-breaking snows that challenge plow crews, threaten roofs, and evoke an all-around readiness to be d...