What’s Important

I’m probably not going to reach 50,000 words for the novel I’m working on as part of National Novel Writing Month. Midway through, I’m just shy of 13,000 words. And I’m OK with that. I’m loving Fourteen, about a fortysomething woman who finally must face the pain she feels from having caused a

Writing Like the Wind

I’ve got what may be the best first chapter ever written for a coming-of-age novel, based loosely on the summer I turned nine. But that’s all I’ve got; with that particular manuscript, every time

Small Is Beautiful!

I’ve been asked again to judge a category in the Independent Book Publishers Association‘s Ben Franklin Awards.  If you’re not familiar with the IBPA, it’s an organization of smaller publishers… not necessarily self-publishers, though some members are self-publishers, but also of independent publishers with dozens of titles that aren’t part of multinational conglomerates. Judging the… Continue reading Small Is Beautiful!