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Usually, when I write my novels, I write from the beginning to the end, but lately, I have begun writing in pieces. When I was 1/4 through ...

I had a truly unhappy first marriage. Stuck in Pittsburgh when I yearned to be in NYC, married to a man who vanished for days, who seldom ...

Behold the bliss of the messy office. The top photo is mine and the one below belongs to the writer Rosemary Graham. (Forgive me for not be...

One of my favorite things to do on Facebook is to look at everyone else's photos. I am always astonished at how clean and spacious an...

This delicious looking blueberry pie is about to go in the oven, and it is courtesy of Coconut and Lime, one of my favorite blogs. I think ...

Some days, everything aligns. Yesterday was such a great writing day, so why am I surprised that today I have been staring at the page and ...

Sometimes when I am wrestling with a chapter (psst, like now), I wonder who am I to teach writing or pretend that I know anything about writ...

Behold these beauties from Sweet, my favorite cupcake place in the world, which just happens to be two blocks away. This means it is often d...

I can't pass up a book about Virginia Woolf . Vanessa & Virginia , about the sister's lives, is ravishing, literate, and fascin...

Vicki Abelson is amazing. A one-time publicist and promoter, she gave it up to be with her kids and started writing. Realizing how importa...

Please check out the fabulous posts about the writing life from author Clea Simon at the amazing Kepler's Writer's blog ! This wri...

What is so funny for a novelist is that we have to do research, even though our greatest pleasure is making things up, creating worlds, and ...

I know a lot of writers who map out their novels. (I do know some writers who follows the pen, but to my mind, those books have a certain in...

Jo Umans is the wonderful executive director of Behind the Book, a literary arts nonprofit that promotes literacy and a reading cul...

Kate Malloy, the author of the wonderful Every Last Cuckoo has a fabulous post up at Kepler's Writers Blog , my new favorite place in t...

Sigh. It is an old argument and I wish it could be put to rest. Recently in the NYT , I read a piece about the books of summer, how if some...

This is from the fabulous Cari Luna. Spread the word, donate, enter. Remember a while back when I told you about a wonderful project that ...

I am at the stage now where my novel is not listening to me.  It has a mind of its own.  It veers and turns and twists.  It avoids looking m...

Yesterday, I had lunch with Liza, a writer friend who lives in Atlanta (what bliss), and we started talking about the unexpected shape our l...

Ron Hogan is the writers' friend.  He's been working to put together a new writers' conference with the Center for Fiction in Ne...