Here you'll find current musings, as well as the archives from two blogs of yesteryear: YoungMarriedMom and What I Learned While Writing a Novel. Please comment and share. We love well when we are in conversation with one another.
My late winter hiatus turned out much longer than expected. But then, it was a long winter—too much sickness, the passing of my grandmother, and more heavy snow than I would have liked. But now we are here in spring. I have a beautiful little girl, whom my bigger boys love dearly. My first contraction […]
I love books. I love food. I love books about food—reading them, writing them, and, it turns out, writing about them. One of the fun things about striving for publication is researching and reading comparable titles for an understanding of the marketplace. In my case, that means “foodie fiction,” books in which the characters or […]
I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to interview New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Oliver on her experiences as an editor, a writer, and the founder of literary incubator Paper Lantern Lit. In October of last year, I heard Ms. Oliver speak on a panel at the Boston Book Festival. She discussed her […]