Room in Lisbon- One of the first impressions of Portugal is the Mediterranean light. Thick stone walls keep rooms cool in the summer...

The extensive marketing efforts required after publication often come as a surprise (a shock?) to the debut author. Even with the...

With thanks to Story Circle Network for the continued recognition of Even in Darkness through the Sarton Literary Award, and this...

Walking home from an all-day symposium “Poets at Michigan” on a stunningly beautiful April afternoon, I thought of the word “Dayenu”...

Finishing a manuscript for a new book feels a little like the scene in the movie Ghost when the psychic Oda Mae Brown must exorcise the...

Imagine sitting at the original Peet's Coffee shop in Berkeley, CA, when in walks the author and main character come to life from the...

Lee Child, in a recent NYTimes style piece , asserts that “objectively I was one of the luckiest humans ever born.” The prolific best...

One of the joys of becoming an author is the opportunity to meet and befriend other authors. Early on in my publishing process with She...