On the road to Taos
Some of the most helpful critiques I've ever received on my prose have been from a poet. This particular poet -- Lawrence Gregory. Lawrence has a real ear for voice [...]
Some of the most helpful critiques I've ever received on my prose have been from a poet. This particular poet -- Lawrence Gregory. Lawrence has a real ear for voice [...]
It’s a cold March night in the high desert mountains of the Apacheria. The young Chihenne Victorio prepares for his fourth dihoke mission, the final apprenticeship he must complete [...]
Hats off to Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful National Novel Writing Month! Thanks to Baty and his cohorts, November will never be the same for compulsive writers and [...]
Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886, via Wikimedia Commons. Happy Halloween! It's that time in America when kids dressed as superheros and princesses in store-bought costumes come knocking [...]
Pleased to share the just-released review of Looking for Redfeather, recipient of Literary Fiction Book Review's Spring Spotlight Award. "Some teens are just unmanageable – getting crazy ideas and making [...]
Storytelling isn't just for bedtime and this ain't Mom reading Good Night Moon. This is Aaron Landon bringing to life Ramie, Chas, LaRoux, and the many characters they meet on [...]
Coming of age is a term that for me encompasses those years, those days, that moment in time when we realize we are alive -- that we are sentient beings [...]
Being a writer sometimes feels like a cross between an archaeologist, a nurse, and a sanitation engineer. To find the heart of your story, you have to be willing to [...]
Characters hook us, plot compels us to turn the pages, but the theme of a story is what stays with us long after we’ve forgotten the details. Theme answers the [...]
For those discerning readers who are looking for Redfeather, the elusive book was sighted at this year's BEA, thanks to Foreword Reviews, a well-regarded book review journal that offers a [...]