I wrote the post below as a guest post for the Manic Momies a couple weeks ago, but thought other mom writers might enjoy it to. - Meg The story of my writing …
She Writes Day of Action
Like many writers unhappy about the recent underrepresentation of women authors on the top-books-of-the-year lists, I've joined in the She Writes Day of Action. …
Nabokov on Reading Poetry
In part because a character in my new novel is a poet - which I am not - I've been reading a lot of poetry lately. It's amazingly inspiring. And I just came …
Breakfast for Breast Cancer!
Is there a more fun place to raise awareness for anything than a bookstore? One of the things I'm doing to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year is …
The Inner Book Geek in Me
Just before The Wednesday Sisters released in paperback, I was tagged on facebook with a "What kind of Book Geek Are You?" list. Although I rarely do the things …
Janet Skeslien Charles: Open to Experiences
My guest this week, Janet Skeslien Charles, is a novelist whose debut, Moonlight in Odessa, is just out from Bloomsbury. It was chosen as one of ten promising …
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Natural Writers
I'm reading Graham Swift's Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (if you've never read Swift, go get a copy of Last Orders this minute and do so!) and came …
Kathryn Ma: All That Work
My guest author this week, Kathryn Ma, is the author of All That Work and Still No Boys, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She's the first Asian American …
The Single Best Piece of Advice I've Gotten as a Writer
Several years ago, I had the great (okay, and somewhat terrifying) experience of studying with Tim O'Brien at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He gave our …
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A Room of My Own
Thought I'd share this morning a post I did for Books on the Brain a few weeks ago: Virginia Woolf famously said in “A Room of One’s Own” that “a woman must …
