historical fiction for a modern reader
So, OK, there’s no Olympic ski racing in my future, but I started learning to downhill ski at the age of 50 and by now, at nearly 54, I’m finally getting it. And, most of all, it’s pretty much the most fun I’ve had in my whole grown-up life. And no broken bones so far. … Read more…
No, she didn’t come to me in a vision, but next best thing was a 735 page biography of her and Franklin taken from her own papers. (In truth I was supposed to read the newer one that is half as long and called Franklin and Eleanor, but by means of a kerfuffle with my … Read more…
I’m telling you something here that it took me years to figure out for myself. We ALL (almost without exception) get started in the writing business thinking it will be easy. Why? Because good writers make it look easy. Because they’ve mastered the craft for just that reason. So stories will flow naturally and effortlessly, … Read more…
It’s a fact—writers get rejected a lot. We work in a subjective business where there are people who don’t like our work—at every level. In the beginning it’s agents, then it’s editors, then there are reviewers and eventually readers. They all reject us sometime or another. Yet some rejections hurt a whole lot more than … Read more…