I don’t like complaining … in public, anyway. And I don’t like making excuses. Unfortunately, complaining and excuses seem to go hand-in-hand for me. The thing about complaining is that there is always someone worse off than me, which should give some perspective. And the thing about excuses is, nobody […]
Hello, dear Reader, and Happy Monday (or whatever day upon which you are reading this). I thought it would be good to share a few things you should know about me. Now, if you’ve been following my blog for a long time, maybe these items won’t surprise you. If you’re […]
My husband and I have a lot of books. Mine are mostly fiction; his are nonfiction (environment, politics, history). I often think of my husband as better read than myself although he rarely reads fiction. On the other hand, my girlfriend and I can dominate a social gathering with our […]
Book review Challenge Series – How I write a book review. Click on this link to read an in-depth description of book reviewing by Rosie Amber!
I do what I can to get work done. That doesn’t mean any one thing, though. It just means I try everything. On a daily basis. (From “An Interview with David Anthony Durham” in The Writer’s Chronicle, Volume 46, Number 4, February 2014) Gent confessed in a new preface he […]
Originally posted on WHAT THE HELL:
My feature at That Part Where is live now, and looks great! To reiterate, at this site you get to highlight a scene from your book — any scene at all — set it up with text that you write, and link to a…
Originally posted on READ: Research in English At Durham:
In this guest post, Oliver Tearle, editor of the Interesting Literature blog, explains how and why literary research can be made interesting to a wider audience. D. H. Lawrence was fond of climbing mulberry trees in the nude to stimulate his…
I’ve been smitten with a wonderful source of short fiction: One Story. A non-profit literary magazine, One Story publishes one story at a time in a print format small enough to fit into a small bag or purse. The stories are between 3,000 and 8,000 words long, and so most […]
