I first connected with Sally Koslow when I was asked to read her delightfully funny The Late, Lamented Molly Marx for a possible blurb - a first for me - and …
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Joshua Henkin: Risking Failure
Joshua Henkin wanted to be a fiction writer when he was growing up but, like so many of us, feared he wasn't good enough. But his second novel, Matrimony - …
Richard Russo on Those Who Fill the Chairs
One really stressful prospect for authors is that we will be the only ones to show up for our readings. Anne Patchett's wonderful take on the problem (excuse me …
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Camille Noe Pagán: Would I Steal these Scenes?
Last year I had the pleasure of hosting debut novelist Camille Noe Pagán when The Art of Forgetting, was published by Dutton. I'm delighted now to rerun her …
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Lynda Rutledge: The Time I Broke Up with Fiction
Lynda Rutledge's path to publishing Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale - which comes out tomorrow! - included stints petting baby rhinos and dodging …
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Andrea Buchanan: Captivating Your Inner Night-Time Critic
I first connected with Andi Buchanan on Readerville.com years ago, when we were both baby authors (her first, Mothershock, came out five months before my The …
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Shakespeare & Company, Paris France
where Anais Nin, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, and Ernest Hemingway have been I'm in Paris for a month, writing and walking in the steps of some literary greats. …
Carolina De Robertis: How I Avoided Second Novel Syndrome
I met Carolina De Robertis at a book club mixer at Books Inc. Berkeley when her first novel, the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain was just out. …
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Randy Susan Meyers: How Long Does it Take (to find an agent? sell the book? get published?)
Randy Sue Meyers is an online writer-pal, and author of The Murderer's Daughters, which Jan Gardner, writing for the Boston Globe, called, "A gripping tale of …
Alex George: Starting Over
Sara Gruen calls this week's guest author, Alex George "a first rate talent." And last week's guest, Eleanor Brown, calls his new novel, A Good American, "by …