If you follow me on Instagram or visited my old blog, you may have noticed that I’m a big believer in good food. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that writing is hard work. When you’re spending serious time creating, revision, and focusing on your w...

When you think of a writer at work, do you picture one person, head down, typing on a computer or scribbling in a notebook? Is there anyone else in the picture?

When I first decided to try my hand at a novel, I didn’t know any unpublished writers. I worked in a bookstor...

So I read my way through school (lots of it) and out into jobs in bookstore. I worked in an independent bookstore in Rhode Island and another in New Mexico, where I was not just selling, but doing the ordering (different from the buying, but closer to first pick of the...

I became a writer through reading. Lots of reading. Excessive reading. After my bedtime by the hallway light (bad for your eyes, don’t do this), during class with a book inside my text book (bad for your grades, don’t do this either), while walking around the house and...