It sure would be nice if coming up with names for your fictional characters was as easy as it seems at first blush.
The Proust Questionnaire is supposed to tease out one’s “true nature.” Needless to say, I took it very seriously.
For those who don’t know what a dream journal is, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a place where you write down your dreams.
How did it go? Pretty well. I made it, anyway.
Murfreesboro, Tenn. contains at least three very good record stores, all within three miles of each other.
Virginia Woolf said, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
How to show readers the ways of your newly created world without making them feel like they’re on the receiving end of an “info dump”?
Is getting nominated for a Pushcart Prize something to brag about?
While marketing my debut novel, We Take Care of Our Own, I have made a couple of unsettling discoveries.
Before posting it here, I showed this cover to two people—my wife and an old friend—and on both occasions the first thing out of their mouths was, “What’s that thing in the background?”