This fall, I’ll be doing a brief residency at Hedgebrook, a women’s writing and retreat center in Washington State. Applications for the 2015 Hedgebrook residencies are up online and the deadline is September 3, 2014. Basically, I’ll be living in a cabin in the woods and writing, writing! Sound good? Yeah. I’m very excited about… Read more »
the author’s life
That Eeemy-Squeamy Feeling
If you’ve been around literary networking events at all, you’ve probably met those authors who feel it is their mission in life to get everyone to buy their book. Personally. Right here. Why wait? They have copies for sale. They can sign one for you. Personalize it. Give you a plastic bag, and a bookmark,… Read more »
The Author’s Life Cycle
For a conference last year I developed a presentation about my experience as a debut author. I call it “My Journey with The Rock and the River,” and it’s all about the phenomenon I’ve dubbed The Author’s Life Cycle. The evolution of this presentation was pretty unusual, because the topic they had asked me to present on was “My… Read more »