I first became aware of Korea as an iconic setting for profound fiction when reading Paul Yoon’s award-winning collection of short stories Once the Shore. Despite having traveled to over 27 countries by the time I was thirteen, I’m embarrassed to say how little I knew about Korea, or about Korean literature. Korea has once…
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Book Review: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
“Resistance aims to kill. Its target is the epicenter of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on earth to give and that no one else has but us.” —p. 14 The War of Art I’d heard The War of Art is a great book for writers, and…
The Anatomy of Emotion
I attended a workshop called Words, Words, Words at the Colorado Gold Conference a few weeks ago. As Susan Mackay Smith and Carol Berg waxed poetic about the importance of vivid, precise word choice, I despaired. I have a few strengths as a writer, but vocabulary is not one of them. I find myself particularly…
My Breakfast with Editor Deni Dietz
On Tuesday, August 14th, I attended the RMFW event at the Tattered Cover bookstore that featured a panel of the Writers of the Year nominees. They gave out raffle tickets, and I was the lucky one to win a breakfast with an editor at this year’s Colorado Gold conference. I spent an hour with Denise…
Genre by any other name…
Hi, my name is Cindy Skaggs, and I write genre fiction. As ridiculous as it appears to readers, this kind of genre-as-vice mentality is an ongoing battle. Having worked in a large public library system while I finished my education, I know for a fact that librarians don’t care where something is shelved except as…