Marni Mann’s Books Now in Young Adult Editions Fellow Florida writer, friend, and all-around great gal, Marni Mann made a big splash with...

Another month is gone, and another batch of books made the migration from the “to be read” shelf to the “been there, done that” shelf....

CRAZY! That’s a great way to describe my writing life the last few months. Here’s what I’ve been working on: Trying to finish a draft of...

Those of you who have been regular, engaged readers of “Stories I Read, Stories I Tell” probably have felt a nagging absence over the...

I was asked to write a post on the topic: How do I know when a story is ready for submission? My fine writing friends over at the...

Good fiction transports us into other worlds. Sometimes, this takes the form of the sweeping Civil War epic or the Deep Space...

Here is the run-down of my reading list for September: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene – Greene’s masterpiece is both hauntingly...

I will again be offering two courses through the Life Long Learning Academy at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus....

It’s been a quiet week, creatively. Starting the middle of last week, I began to battle some serious sleep loss. The first few days, I...

I was privileged to hear today’s guest, Dominique Traverse Locke, read from her graduating thesis. I remember very clearly that I was...

A long weekend followed by a productive Tuesday and BOOM…here it is, already the 5th of September and I haven’t posted my monthly recap...

Practice may not make perfect, but it certainly helps. Occasionally, when I run the spelling and basic grammar check at the end of...

Late last week, the computer models (all six million of them) were projecting that the tropical storm named Isaac would spend the last...

My blog post for today is being hosted by Belinda Nicoll at her blog, My Rite of Passage. It’s a blog about life changes. After you’ve...

I carry a little Molskine notebook around with me, most of the time. I jot down phrases, story ideas, random thoughts, and even the...

Part 5: Fear of BIG SCARY TOPICS First I’d like to thank Eric for hosting this post today. This is such a big fear for me, that I...

I was writing a brief critique this week, and as I wrote something like, “You’ve done a nice job of telling this tale,” my itchy s-finger...

I received a link in my email this weekend, with the following video featured, and the brief intro: “It’s not what you say, but how you...

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