Order NOW! What book completely transported you back in time? For me it was Jonathan Frazier’s COLD MOUNTAIN, the 1997 National Book...

I just saw — and loved! — the 2021 Icelandic movie set in current times that hinges on a very strange fable-like twist. I won’t...

Read Reading and Writing Fiction Without Guilt: 4 thoughts about cultural appropriation (and how to avoid it) by Martha Engber, Women...

You know that sad feeling you get when you finish a really great book? Like all you want to do is hang out with the characters a little...

ORDER BLISS ROAD NOW! Listen now to Episode 107! I started listening to Jaime Alejandro’s Arts Calling! podcast last year. He’s a...

Order BLISS ROAD now! Drum roll, please…. BLISS ROAD is now out in the world! Thanks to all of my advance readers and reviewers who’ve...

Preorder BLISS ROAD now! While creating the compilation of graphics for this final 52nd — and last — post in the 52 Reasons to be...

Preorder BLISS ROAD now! I think for a lot of writers, when they inform their families the next book will be a memoir that assesses...

The normal definition of “faction” is a dissenting group among a larger group. But according to The Book Genre Dictionary, faction now...

I’m happy to say my essay, How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free, is featured in the most recent issue of Women Writers, Women’s...

I'm one of three women born to a mother who was one of four girls. To say I come from a long line of strong, independent-thinking women...

We live in a fast-changing world. It’s tough to keep up on what terms are acceptable and which have been thrown out as being offensive....

by Tommy Orange In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, I wanted to recommend Tommy Orange’s There There. A member of the...

by Oskar Hokea I get connected via social media to all kinds of fascinating people. A few years ago I started following the blog of Oskar...

I just finished Mark Chesnut’s Prepare for Departure, a travel writer’s humorous, warm memoir of journeying with his mother to the end of...

Back in the day, long before my first novel publication (The Wind Thief), I craved to teach at the San Francisco Writers Conference. A...

A friend of mine, Jayne Martin, is a master of flash writing, which is the art of depicting an entire story from start to finish in 100...

Talk of war atrocities, scams and political shenanigans got you down? Have I got a podcast for you! Interesting Humans by Christain Ward...

Today is Mary Donahue’s birthday! That’s right, born April 13, 1963, Mary — the protagonist in Winter Light — turns 59 today. She’s...

My author friend, Annalisa Crawford, recently asked about the definition of “speculative memoirs.” I love such questions, because they...