Tag Archives: books

Writing the first novel: idea to sale--an author's journey. Please join me in this new series at Blogcritics Magazine.

An interview with Joshua M. Greene, who wrote the biography, "Swami in a Strange Land". It's the real-life story of Swami Prabhupada, who came to New York at the age of 70 and changed the lives and consciousness of millions.

Interview with Sylvia Dickey Smith author of "Original Cyn".

Interview with Ian A O'Connor, author of "The Wrong Road Home"

Interview with Dawn Brotherton author of "Trish's Team".

Interview with Jane Tesh, author of "Butterfly Waltz": "The creative process is something that I can’t resist or understand. I can’t explain where my characters come from. They are imaginary friends who never left me."

You write about what you care about. You have to give your characters things to care about, too, right?

The Lord is always giving us opportunity to grow and start building for us. He did that at a very young age for me.

The bookshop is no longer as successful and Kitty and her friend Frieda must make a decision to move forward. Yet her dreams begin to seem more real than her life at the bookshop, and make her wonder. Does she have a choice in what she wants in life?

Ernest Hemingway referred to Fitzgerald as "the great tragedy of talent in our bloody generation."