Susan starts a blog I know I’ve been a sluggard (or a slacker?) lately when it comes to writing for…
Today I’m celebrating National Library Week by sharing advance praise from eleven authors for my short story collection, FRIENDS…
If you’re in the Jackson, Mississippi area, mark your (busy holiday) calendars for 5 p.m. on December 18 and drop…
If you read my blog regularly, you know that I have published four books, with four different publishers—two university presses…
This week has been busy with WRITING! I just finished the tenth and final story for my linked short story…
The 2018 Mississippi Book Festival is this Saturday, August 18! Here’s the SCHEDULE. This will be my second year…
Eight of the twenty-six authors who contributed essays (and the Foreword) to Southern Writers on Writing have new books out…
Eleven years ago this August I went to the first Mississippi Writers Guild Conference in Clinton, Mississippi. It was pivotal…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
On August 19 I was on two panels at the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival. I moderated one panel, “Her Story,”…