Just got back from ConFusionSF a couple of weekends ago. Met lots of cool new people and had some very in-depth discussions about my last two projects. I knew that the contemporary novel I’ve called Harmony in Three Voices was going to need a major re-write but changing from a 2nd person POV hadn’t been […]
I first heard about “Book hunters” in Lisa Jardine’s book Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. I’d been learning about Renaissance and medieval history for years and yet I can’t recall ever hearing about the Italian Humanists who would venture into the dark and hidden parts of monasteries to return great books to […]
My great friend Dr Lara Salyer’s Right Brain Rescue is helping doctors to avoid or recover from burnout. She interviewed me recently to talk about the “double life” of being a creative person with a day job. Episode 9: Living a Double Life
This has not been an easy summer, in any number of ways. Obviously, blogging has been one of those elements that has suffered over the summer. But this is a good forum for me to discuss the current project and what my plans for it are. So, here goes: I’ve previously mentioned that I’m researching […]
More than two years ago, I wrote about the project that I was going to write for the 2014 NaNoWriMo. I sincerely stated that my goal with the project was to answer some questions I had for the characters but would not be more than 30,000 words. Ha! It’s like I’ve never met me. I […]
I caught an episode of “Bones” the other day, “The Daredevil in the Mold” from Season 6. One of the sub-plots is that Booth asks his girlfriend Hannah to marry him. That’s pretty much the only scene I saw that day, so there may be some issues surrounding the proposal I’ve forgotten. But by the […]
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