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...]
On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
It’s a rainy evening in Paris, just minutes before the hour, 75 years ago, that D-Day began. At midnight, RAF aircraft dropped hundreds of dummy paratroopers across Seine-Maritime, not far from here, as a distraction. Ten minutes later, the first pathfinders jumped over Normandy … [Read more...]
The Lowly Pencil
Pencil, from the Latin penicillus, meaning "little tail." Little tail? Not everyone writes even occasionally with the old fashioned yellow pencil with pink eraser top anymore. This astonishing fact came to my attention through a more newfangled way to communicate, the Facebook … [Read more...]
Paddling your Bathtub into London: How Great Stories End
I taught a master class on narrative endings at a writers' gathering this weekend, and promised to share my notes here. They are just my notes, which may or may not be helpful to anyone who did not attend the lecture. With that caveat: PADDLING YOUR BATHTUB INTO LONDON: HOW … [Read more...]
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