• Struck down in my prime!

    Okay, so it’s only a flesh wound and I’ll live to fight again. A fiction writer creates more than words. She creates lives, settings, emotions—the stories of people who don’t exist. But one of the hardest things for that writer to do is send those…

  • Timing Is God’s Thing

    I wrote this post in August when asked to be a guest blogger on Nicole Miller’s To the Heart of History blog. How does a novel take over twenty years to write? I admit to being slow, but that’s a…