Maybe Next Week
Today’s blog was meant to be a review of Erica Berry’s WOLFISH, a fabulous book that I’m just starting to read for the second time. … Read more
books
Reading reading reading
This week I want to talk about two books I read recently that I’m not sure I fully understood. The first is Richard Powers’s PLAYGROUND, … Read more
Writing the Essay
I’ve just started using Scrivener, and have a section in my project for my next book that lists the books I want to read and … Read more
Book Review: Uncontrolled Flight
[Full disclosure: Frances is a friend and one of my writing accountability buddies.] Frances Peck’s first novel, The Broken Places, explored the interactions between an … Read more
Digital Browsing: Avoid Being Pigeonholed By Algorithms
Lately I’ve run across a few books about how our online activity limits our ability to browse, because online algorithms push our attention in the … Read more
It Takes a Village: Writing a Book
Writing a book proposal doesn’t happen in a vacuum – I’ve had lots of help along the way.
5 Favourite Books of 2020
These are five of my favourite books from 2020 – hard to choose just five!
The Antilibrary
All those books you own that you haven’t read yet? They constitute your antilibrary.
Structuring Your Memoir
Sometimes you have to change your perspective to figure out how to improve your writing.
Shaping a Book
Writing a book is hard work, especially finding the right structure for it.
