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The highlight reel for the interviews, reviews, and features about Her Best Self, published six weeks ago on May 21.
Two writers share lessons on navigating the novel-writing journey from initial concept to a polished draft.
Two writers share lessons on navigating the novel-writing journey from initial concept to a polished draft.
My third novel, HER BEST SELF, has a pub date of May 21, 2024 and is available for pre-ordering.
As a taphophile—the technical term for one who tours cemeteries—I haunt local graveyards
A quartet of novelists—Rebecca Godwin, Michel Stone, JC Sasser, and Mindy Friddle taught a workshop on creating your writing practice
Scene and summary—and the “space” between— can function the way “fade outs” do in films.
I like stretching my imaginary muscles, and it’s been wildly fun to try my hand at speculative fiction.
Here’s my test. I have to draw stares when I’m reading on a park bench, the airport, a waiting room—laughing out loud—and not care. Bust a gut laughing, as they say.
He worried his mother would have too much pride to take his pension, but wrote to his sister, "She might as well have it. I know plenty mothers getting it who has twenty dollars to mother's one."
"You might not move your body around, but there’s grueling, dynamic labor going on inside you."
When my grandmother died a few years ago, she left behind her own mother's trunk, filled with photographs (some of them dating from the mid 1800s), stacks of old postcards, a few tragic telegrams, and a letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover about my missing great-aunt, who'd run off to California.
I’ve written before about the poignancy of regret in “I Want to Live!,” a story that manages to weave the nineteenth-century German philosopher Schopenhauer’s ideas around a bantam rooster named Mr. Barnes.
Metaphor, simile, details-- these are not just tools for the poet. The best journalists, essayists, novelists-- know how avoid clichés (like the plague...ha!) and use sharp details to create vivid pictures. I love coming across these beauties when I read. Here are some favorites:
It takes guts to play God. And yet, the omniscient point of view is enormously fluid and rewarding.
The Charleston Post & Courier calls Her Best Self "a page-turner of a novel...a twisty contemporary mystery and a compelling character study."