Category: Writing Life

  • Cover Art

    On October 3rd I had no publisher in sight. My agent, Joelle Delbourgo and I had been searching for a publisher for a year and…

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  • Thursday Morning, October 4th 2018

    Delta 2660 landed in Baltimore a few minutes after 11AM. This was the first time I’d ever landed in Baltimore. I took my cell phone…

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  • What Is Writerly Success?

    What is the measure of a writer’s success? Is it placement of a short story in a lit mag? Obtaining an agreement with an agent?…

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  • India

    We just spent a week in India visiting orphans in such places as Bangalore and Puliangudi. During the trip I wrote in my travel journal…

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  • When Under Duress, Write

    I wrote the first pages of the first draft of The Confessions of Adam after a stressful evening at a church leadership meeting. I recall…

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