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Subscribe nowAt the moment, I’m fascinated with this part of the process: how do characters such as Ishmael, Huck, Mrs. Bridge, Bilbo Baggins, or Count Rostov…
Read MoreI enjoy providing you, my reader, with insights into what the writing life looks and feels like from the inside. How a novelist works. Or…
Read MoreWriting and reading cannot be separated in the life of a writer. A non-reading writer is akin to a musician who doesn’t listen to music.…
Read MoreSeveral weeks ago I was speaking with a friend who is in the throes of completing a debut novel. A beta reader, who is an…
Read MoreAs yesterday was the 55th anniversary of the day of my birth, and I don’t want to wait a year to tell you (when my…
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