historical fiction for a modern reader
I’m a pretty chill person in general. I’ve had to be…to raise three kids on a farm, build our own house, start various small businesses, and navigate leadership roles on a series of public boards. The more crises I see, the more I take each one in stride. Most times, whatever it is…I’ve seen it … Read more…
Does it look easy from here?? Well . . . Here’s the actual story: 2001 Lisa Sammet, the new Library Director, vowed to bring the Jeudevine into the 21st century. She said right away that we needed more space. The historic 1895 library is an architectural gem, but also a dollhouse. It holds a total … Read more…
So movies and novels have a lot in common, right? Both tell stories. And some of the best movies come from novels, don’t they? (Though not so much vice versa!) Which means novelists have the upper hand and are the real storytellers. Except for one thing. Screenwriters, the better ones, actually make … 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…
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…