Well, not the final final part. You still have to come to my workshop at the Colorado Gold Conference next month. And of course, that isn’t the final lesson, either. As with most skills, reading publicly is a lifelong learning experience that improves with practice. Speaking of practice, how do you prepare for a reading?…
Books that are also movies Old Yeller by Fred Gipson and Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls? (Just the titles make me cry.) Jack London’s, White Fang takes us on quite an emotional journey. Based on L. Frank Baum’s book series, The Wizard of Oz was an annual Easter family event in our…
Why does one book achieve robust sales while another struggles to gain traction? While the ultimate test of a novel is what’s between the covers (the quality of the writing, the intricacies of the plot, the fascinating characters), there is no doubt that if a reader is not aware your book exists, they aren’t going…
Let’s talk about the weather. I know, I know. The weather is what you talk about when you can’t think of anything else to discuss. Person A: “Hot enough for you?” Person B: “Yeah. That was some storm last night, wasn’t it?” Person C: “Did you notice how that heat wave that moved in this…
I’ve been writing fiction for 39 years. It took me 23 years to get published. I thought I would always write crime fiction. Now, after five novels out in one mystery series, I have a regular old novel coming out on January 1 from Lake Union. It’s called The Fireballer. Of course I have no…