Everything is Writing
Men’s ties lined up, plain, striped, paisley, sewn into the frenetic mosaic of a crazy quilt and knotted through with yarn – I could pretend that it was pretty or even artfully wrought because it was...
View ArticleMy interview with Finch novelist Jeff VanderMeer
In the San Antonio Current: Waiting to Inhale I ran out of room in the article to mention VanderMeer’s online “Finch Insurgency Campaign” which, aside from having some very cool interactive stuff, has...
View Articleinterview with David Small, author/illustrator of Stitches
Pictured, a panel from David Small’s Stitches, accompanying the article below. Putting the pieces back together
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There was so much great commentary by Jeff VanderMeer in my interview with him for the Current that didn’t actually make the Current article due to space — insights on genre and craft, everything that...
View ArticleInterview with Wench author Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Though she’d told me she’d had several “apprentice novels” prior to writing Wench, this is Perkins-Valdez’s first published novel — and as I received the galley to review and prepared for our...
View ArticleSomething to be said for a happy mom: an interview with author Amy Wilson
In honor of today’s paperback release of Amy Wilson’s When did I get like this?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be, I’m reposting...
View ArticleToday’s the day!
You can now get your ebook copy of Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema right here. A very special thanks to Simon Smithson at Calavera Books, each of the phenomenal contributors and...
View ArticleTen Lessons of Fictional Writers in Film
New Years Resolution: update blog in a timely manner … starting right after I post this news of a piece that ran almost a month ago. But if you love film and you love to write and you love writers in...
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