Reading and Writing Tales

What we’re reading: Spring 2013 edition

It’s been too long since a reading update! As always, I’d love to know what you’re all reading as well. What I’m reading: Lately, I’ve had a terrible habit of starting new books before finishing the last, so I read the following simultaneously: Heads in Beds is written by a long-time employee in the hotel [...]

Brick by brick

For those of you who follow the novel querying process, either because you’re in the midst of it yourself or just want to know how things are going because you’re nice like that, I still have one ‘full’ out for the Novel that Won’t Die. I used to have two. The second one was rejected [...]

Writing work

I love that I now write for a living. Full time. Full stop. Even just saying it makes me happy.  If you missed this bit of news, last month I took the plunge and quit my day job. I am now home from 8 am to 2 pm with only my screen (and my dogs) [...]

The heft of cathedral tunes

I had the pleasure of visiting one of my favorite bookstores, Powell’s City of Books in Portland, recently. At least, it was sort of a pleasure. It was also tinged with something that was almost but not quite pain. Bookstores, the good ones at least, the ones that clearly have souls, do that to me. [...]

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