How We Write: Getting published – in a science journal
a memoir by Martin Evans "Publish or perish!". The warning is more urgent in today's world of science research than when it was first used in the nineteen-thirties. A young [...]
Aaron Landon to narrate ‘Looking for Redfeather’ audiobook
I'm pleased to sign a contract with Aaron Landon to read Looking for Redfeather for the audible.com audiobook. I wrote the first draft in 30 days while I myself was [...]
Margaret Skea on writing the second book of a series
I met Margaret Skea at the 2012 Historical Novel Society Conference in London and have been following her debut historical novel, Turn of the Tide, with great interest. She's giving [...]
How We Write: Seamus Beirne on his process of writing The Ice House
Seamus Beirne and I both have ties to Barbados. My novel Barbados Bound and Seamus's forthcoming novel The Ice House are both partially set in historical Barbados, when British plantation [...]
Seymour Hamilton on imagination and Astreya
“How does my imagination work ?” Unpredictably. I start with a place. But I can’t say “I’ll write a story set in Bermuda, or New York City or Mars.” It’s [...]
Writing on a Ranch in the Rockies; Antidotes to Isolation
Mary Kurtz is one of the Steamboat Writers, a group of essayists, fiction writers, academics, and poets who have been meeting weekly for more than twenty years to share their [...]
Anna Belfrage talks of time travel and other writing secrets
How We Write. Today's guest post on How We Write is by novelist Anna Belfrage, who lives in Sweden. Anna and I have connected on Facebook -- and quite possibly in [...]
Writing process? What process? A blog hop tour
My Writing Process Judith Starkston, author of Hand of Fire (Fireship Press, September 2014) invited me to participate in this blog hop tour and answer four [...]
Barbara Kyle on Writing a Series
I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara Kyle in person at the Historical Novel Society Conference in London, 2012. And what a lovely person she is! Barbara writes both historical [...]
Interior dialogue: What is your character really thinking?
Having just adapted one of my novels to a stage play, I'm acutely aware of how important a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings are to the story. In a play [...]