How To Keep Your Fire As a Writer Alive, Even If You Can’t Just “Be a Writer”
There have been years when I’ve been able to dedicate a lot of time to writing and years when I haven’t. But even when I wasn’t doing what seemed like “real writing,” I never really stopped working with words. There were smaller things...The Next Big Thing: An Interview About a New Novel
The historical fiction writer Mary Biddinger created an on-line interview called The Next Big Thing. I was tagged for this by Claire Gebben, whose historical novel about a German blacksmith will come out early next year. (It sounds very interesting!) Meanwhile, here...Cameroonian Life
In the last two posts I wrote about visiting Cameroon. Here are some other things I found interesting while I was there: People eat animals that it would never occur to us to eat: bats, cane rats, what-have-you. We saw a boy standing beside the road, holding up a...Business as Usual in Cameroon
We Americans are accustomed to cleanliness, order and privacy, even if we don’t think we’re immaculate, organized and private. We are also used to buying what we need (or want) and having it readily available, new and in good condition. We don’t...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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