Lately I’ve been trying to decide whether to write another young adult novel or an adult one. I have a YA novel in progress, but I worry that it doesn’t sound YA enough (whatever that [...]
Anyone who knows me knows better than to ask me to take a picture. Many agonizing minutes later I will produce a photo that is crooked, or blurred, and the top of your head will probably be cut [...]
Some writers keep returning to the story they have to tell until they get it right. When I started my YA novel Half in Love with Death (Simon & Schuster/ Merit Press), I’d already abandoned [...]
Lately, every time I get going on my writing I kill the buzz by thinking about what I’m doing wrong. When I wrote my first novel I plowed ahead blindly, but now I have a serious case of [...]
Lately, every time I get going on my writing I kill the buzz by thinking about what I’m doing wrong. When I wrote my first novel I plowed ahead blindly, but now I have a serious case of [...]
I recently got laid off from an IT job I’d held for 35 years (I really did stay at an insurance company that long) and became a debut author. This has been, without a doubt, an exciting [...]
This is the only time of year when I try to be normal and spend a lot of time at the mall. I think of it as my mall pilgrimage and this year my pilgrimage didn’t totally suck. There were [...]
This is the time of year that makes us wish we were back in school. Not because we want homework or tests, but because we want back to school clothes, back to school shoes (black patent leather [...]
It’s almost a rite of passage to have to change the title of your book when it sells to a publisher, and I fully expected that to happen to me. I figured it would be just one more step in a [...]
Some writers keep returning to the story they have to tell until they get it right. When I started my YA novel Half in Love with Death (forthcoming from Merit Press 2016), I’d already abandoned [...]
