CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

The answer to the above? Yes. I just finished reading the NYT Magazine article about how James Patterson no longer writes his own books, but...

When a woman's father becomes suddenly very Orthodox Jewish, she's forced to confront everything she ever felt about belief, faith a...

I'm in the midst of looking at first page proofs. It's a terrifying time because everything is sort of set in stone and now is the ...

Katharine Weber ’s life is a novel in itself. (Note: you’ll want to buy and read her forthcoming memoir.) The author of Objects in the Mir...

Picture this scene. I’m in my twenties, deep in the middle of my very first novel, working at home, not answering the phone or emails or ins...

From Lauren B. Davis, posted by novelist Mameve Medwed on Shewrites.com. I could not have said this better!

I've spent six hours today writing my new novel, and the story seems stubbornly out of my reach, and the three decent lines I wrote toda...

Who isn't in love with the story of Alice in Wonderland? In Alice I have Been, Melanie Benjamin creates a hypnotic portrait of the re...

For me, the thought of getting my book jacket photo taken was akin to root canal without anesthesia. It's been so difficult that I...

Ah, here it is again. 2000 words today and I feel as if I've lost control of my novel. I have no idea anymore what it is I want to say a...

Happy 2010. Well, almost. Instead of making resolutions, I think everyone should watch this remarkable trailer for Dani Shapiro's new...

The holidays are always sort of strange to me. I'm Jewish, so we never celebrated Xmas, though Hanukkah was a very big deal growing up...

Writing a new novel is an often hallucinatory process. It always starts out, for me, anyway, with a bang. I have an obsession, an image in...