Quick! Name the actress/ singer/ director/ composer/ producer/ designer/ author/ photographer/ activist who is the only artist to ever receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards, France’s...
I needed to find an unusual method that I could use to kill off one of the guys in my novel. Note: Novel = fiction—let’s be clear about that. I’m harmless. I’ve never been either violent or deranged, and the only reason I’ve been fingerprinted is because it’s required...
A long, long, time ago (just typing those words makes me want to start singing “American Pie”), I was given the best piece of writing advice ever. I’d been struggling with defining my niche as a writer, and frustrated that I couldn’t get down deep into my gut and...
I have one of those insatiably curious writers’ minds. The kind of mind that pushes me to delve into word origins and histories and every aspect of etymology. This, as you might imagine, can be quite distracting. And yes, this has led me down the merry Path of...
Aunt Jo’s been gone a month now. Only a month, and while at times it feels like a hundred years ago, it also feels like yesterday. I’ll bet Aunt Jo single-handedly kept Hallmark in business, as she never missed an occasion to send a card. And on every single one there...
