I’ve been lucky enough to travel a little and see some different corners of the world. As a reader, I’ve even time-traveled from Ancient Rome to Victorian England and countless other times and places in between. There is something about these various places that captures my attention and taps into my imagination. I find that … Continue reading How Place Shapes My Writing: From Coastal Maine to Victorian England
author reflections
One Scene I Almost Cut From The Professor of Eventide (and Why I Kept It)
If you’ve been writing as long as I have, you already know that every novel we write contains scenes that seem to come effortlessly as well as scenes that have to fight to survive. In The Professor of Eventide, there was one scene (or really a series of scenes) that I came very close to … Continue reading One Scene I Almost Cut From The Professor of Eventide (and Why I Kept It)
The Books That Shaped The Writer I Became
When I think about the writer I’ve evolved into, after more than 20 years of learning and honing my craft, I can trace part of that journey through four books in particular: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Leaves of Grass by … Continue reading The Books That Shaped The Writer I Became