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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It’s difficult to know how to add my voice to the those of the writers and friends who have been remembering and praising Michael Steinberg. On December 9 the writing community — especially the creative nonfiction community — lost someone…
I have never met Erika Dreifus in person, but I feel as if I know her. That may be because we’ve communicated quite a lot in recent years about writing and book-related news. We are connected by certain things; my…
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…