Saturday, May 3, 2025

Encyclopedia Britannica: A Mother’s Gift Honored in Time for Mother’s Day

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  In Borneo, I finally found a proper place for my Encyclopedia Britannica, a gift from my mother.   I was fifteen years old when I filled...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Writing Excerpts and Entering James Jones First Novel Fellowship

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  After blogging about taking two years to rewrite six novels , I received some nice comments from an editor at Shenandoah about an excer...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Catching Up: Reading a Backlog of Short Stories…

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I admit I had been putting off reading several collections of short stories.  I kept them on a separate shelf divided by those I’ve read, th...
Monday, September 16, 2024

So, is your novel Literary? Commercial? Upmarket? Book Club?

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Whenever I submit one of the six novels that I recently rewrote in  trusting the process  to an agent, I’m often asked, via online, what is ...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

“On Fridays” to be published in Thema (USA)

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As I wrote in a recent blog, every few years I get this urge to rewrite the 17 stories  from  Lovers and Strangers Revisit­ed .  The first...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Awards—2024 Finalist for Novel: One Day Among the Ruins: A Lesson in Love and Friendship

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      One Day Among the Ruins :  A Lesson in Love and Friendship, one of the six novels that I re­wrote between 2022 and 2024 and blogge...
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Monday, March 25, 2024

Trust the Novel Writing (and Rewriting) Process

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  Two years ago, in March of 2022, after finally completing a sixth novel (set in Pompeii about an unusual friendship be­tween an American b...
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