My Paris
I first visited Paris on my honeymoon, a gift from my in-laws. The first days of the trip, however, were…
For writers, having a book published is a huge moment. Before that happens, we may spend years writing a book. I certainly…
Getting a good review is always a heady moment for a writer. Usually these come from professional reviewers on the…
Chatting about A Stone for Bread. To hear the interview go to WUNC.
News & Record book reviewer Linda C. Brinson calls A Stone for Bread “a compelling story that’s hard to put…
So I go check out my Amazon page in the run-up to my new novel’s release. To get to the page, I…
In Part 1, I talked about the editing and design of a new book. Now come the three “P’s” of book publishing: proofing, printing and publicity. Proofing…
The most exciting moment in a writer’s life is a publisher’s phone call. Your book or novel or collection of…
“Jean-Paul Sartre said that it takes 20 years for a writer to objectively read his own work as his audience…
Several months ago, my editor at Livingston Press asked for a few paragraphs telling how I came to write A Stone for Bread. Here’s what…
In the spring of 1972, I was teaching Freshman English three nights a week at Essex County College in Newark,…
Warning: Never delete that page you hate! Or a character who’s all wrong! Or trash a manuscript in disgust! Certainly, we writers all have those moments.…
In my first novel Absolution, I set chapters in Vietnam, although I have never been there. In A Stone for Bread,…
Just before we took off for a 10 day vacation, I read, edited and returned the final set of pdfs…
The Veteran He was a handsome young man, tall and blonde, older than the other Freshmen in my Composition…
Reimagining. That’s what we fiction writers do. We take the stuff of our lives and reimagine it as fictional people, places…