It’s National Love Your Pet Day, and for me it’s a double celebration, because it’s also the publication date for Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat. It took a lot of hard work to bring this heartwarming little book to the…
I was thrilled to see this story about Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat at HudsonValley360.com, the website for the Register-Star. The Register-Star is the local newspaper in the area of Chatham, New York, where I went to high school in…
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In today’s Writers in the Trenches interview, we tackle a genre we haven’t discussed before in detail – historical fiction. Joan Schweighardt’s new novel, Gifts for the Dead, takes place in the early 20th century in Hoboken, NJ. It’s the…
In one of her answers to my questions below, poet Alison Stone talks about poems having “two images or stories that play off each other and add up to more than the sum of the parts.” In a funny way, our…
My amazing illustrator, Laurel McKinstry Petersen, is working hard on some beautiful illustrations for TRIBBS: THE HANDSOME CAT (Based on a True Story). We’re working hard to try to get this book in your child’s hands by the holidays! I’ll…
The early mornings are cooling off in Boston. For a time in July it was too hot to sit out behind our house with a cup of hot coffee in the mornings. That’s changing now; I can enjoy a little…
Many thanks to Five Directions Press and Joan Schweighardt for publishing a new interview with me in their online newsletter. Joan asked me about my strategies for fitting a writing life into a 9-5 working life (not easy) and about…