Every interview in this series is unique and provides insight into a writer who is working on craft. Some interviewees have had many publications in literary journals, some none. Some have published books, others haven’t. Some I know personally, and…
Message From a Blue Jay, my first book, was published four years ago this week. To celebrate, the e-book version is on sale at Amazon for 99 cents for two days. Grab an inexpensive copy or gift it to a…
It’s been interesting to read the reviews of Message From A Blue Jay since nearly 27,000 people downloaded the book during a free, three-day promotion in mid-June (and more purchased copies in the days and weeks since). My publisher, while…
“Winter,” a new essay about one of the last visits I had with my father before he passed away in April, has just been published by Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. I am especially honored by this publication for a…
It’s hard to believe that two weeks have passed since my Creative Nonfiction Writing Seminar wrapped up its last class at Lasell College. Two days after the class ended, I boarded a plane and headed to Colorado to visit my…
I’m taking a break from the semester’s writing course with some writing news of my own — my new short essay, “Still Life with Writing,” is now up at BOXY Magazine. BOXY is a wonderful new artsy, edgy publication out…
If you’re following this online chronicle of a semester’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop, you know that last week guest blogger Michael Steinberg wrote about “The Role(s) of Memory and Imagination in Literary Memoir.” “And now,” to quote the old favorite,…