I am working through plotting issues myself and returned to these notes from a master class I taught on narrative endings a couple years ago. They are just my notes, which may or may not be helpful to anyone who did not attend the lecture. With that caveat, I'm bumping them up … [Read more...]
No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends
No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends Like many now, I'm social distancing. The good news for me is that a writer in these circumstances can collect as many imaginary friends around her as ... well, as she can imagine. No six feet of separation required. A First … [Read more...]
Bookseller Raves for The Last Train to London (now in 18 Languages) — and a prepublication copy for you!
So much great news to share on my forthcoming novel, The Last Train to London, to be published by HarperCollins September 10, but let me start by saying Harper is offering FIFTY (50) galleys, which are pre-publication paperbacks, HERE. We just sold Bulgarian rights, which I'm … [Read more...]
A new book by Madeleine l’Engle: Stories found in her “Tower”
The two books that made me dream of becoming a writer were Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. So the news I read this morning in a Publishers Weekly email made me squee: a new l’Engle book is coming! It's an adult short story … [Read more...]
Writing in Paris!
I'm in Paris, working on a new novel, and just for fun I thought I'd share what writing in Paris looks like. So enter my apartment here, and stay for the view -- which I'm looking at as I write this and wait for Mac to be ready for a patisserie outing. And a bit of good news, … [Read more...]
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