What a nice surprise when I went to my book, Written Across the Genres, on Amazon and found new reviews. The book has 8 five stars and 1 four stars rating. I appreciate all of you who wrote reviews, and the most recent one by MBTG. Who are you, MBTG? I’d like to thank you […]
Harper Lee Quotes and New Novel
Harper Lee is an American novelist who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was published in 1960 and became an immediate bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print by 1999. It deals with the racism she observed as a child in her hometown in Monroeville, Alabama. Lee was […]
Eudora Welty Quotes
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.” “Indeed, learning to write may be […]
Nominate Your Favorite Bookstore
Nominate Your Favorite Bookstore for a Pannell Award Due date Extended to February 14, 2015 Every year two bookstores that excel in connecting children with books are selected by a panel of publishing professionals–one award is given to a general bookstore and one a children’s specialty bookstore. Anyone can nominate a store. Simply email: pannellaward@gmail.com, […]
Quotes for Writers
“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.” —Raymond Chandler “When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.” —Ray Bradbury “Good writers define reality. Bad ones, merely restate it.” –Edward Albee
Value of Researching your Novel
Research isn’t only for writers of historical fiction or non-fiction. All writing can benefit from research. Non-fiction writers usually rely on finding facts, but if one thinks that fiction stories don’t need research since the story is made up, misses an opportunity to enhance the story. Doing the research earlier than later in the writing […]
Interview with Writer Sonia Geasa
Sonia Geasa has two essays published in my anthology, Written Across the Genres. The one called, “The House in Germany” tells about living on Haupstrasse in Spangdahlem. In the essay, she says, “I lived in Germany for two years, but Germany still lives in me.” Sonia’s other essay titled, “I’ll Be Back,” is about wanting […]