Wine & Words Authors Event in Minnesota
What a fun evening. Almost 400 book lovers came out last night for Wine & Words, an annual event sponsored by Friends of Brainerd Public Library. Lorna Landvik was the fun, funny, ukulele-playing
What Was Mine comes out in British translation today
I'm thrilled that the book is now available in the UK, thanks to Penguin Random House who translated title and cover for speakers of King's English. Find it in bookstores or
Labor Pains
Working on second pass pages this weekend. What are second pass pages, you may ask? I wondered, too. I thought my last chance to make changes were first pass pages,
how to sell a book before it is published
My book isn't out until January, but generous friends hosted a party for it this weekend after I mentioned to them a few months ago (trying to sound casual) how
Which Face Would You Buy A Book From?
This is the day I decide on my author pic. The (wonderful) photographer John Gruen sent over (digital) contacts this morning. He provided headshots with several different expressions and backgrounds, having posed
Another Fun Thing About Writing A Novel: Choosing Dates
August 10. This is an important date in my novel. It's the date of the "inciting incident", as they call it in craft workshops: the action that sets the story going.
MFA vs. AWP
Attending my first AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis last weekend, I realized I might have saved a shipload of time and money if, instead of
What My Cover Designer Couldn’t Have Known
What I love about the cover art is that it's not retro, not modern, not set in any decade at all, which accomplishes the feat of capturing a novel that