I'm reading Francine Prose's What to Read and Why (Harper Perennial, 2018), a book that presents 33 essays on reading, and the written...

Holding my breath in anticipation of the final edits for The Rose and the Whip . . . anticipating what awaits behind the pulled shades,...

I recently read Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani Shapiro as part of my research for my next novel. One of...

Eudora Welty was both photographer and writer, and for this she has my ultimate respect and admiration. I recently read a critical...

Joan Miro, Spanish painter, once said "painting or poetry is made as one makes love--a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds,...

The main protagonist in my second novel is a man named Martin Lovering. As it turns out, this man is my sixth cousin four times removed....

Lines and shadows are everywhere. Lines are drawn from one point to another or to represent something seen or imagined. Lines are written...

As I continue to work on book number two, writing and rewriting the first fifteen or so pages (now six or seven times, more or less...

Merriam-Webster Online defines the adjective abstracted as "expressing a quality apart from the object". As an artist, whether I'm...

There's two camps on this, do outline or don't outline. Sounds simple, but I'm finding with my second novel in its early days that it...

Merriam-Webster defines "second" as next to the first in place or time.