It’s all about STORY . . . . In 2020, the Pulpwood Queens—and their male counterparts, the Timber Guys—are celebrating…
Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…
Three years ago I was reading Circling the Sun, and did a blog post about the use of facts vs.…
On Sunday I finished reading a wonderful new book, Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy (University of Georgia…
If you read my blog regularly, you know that I have published four books, with four different publishers—two university presses…
Eight of the twenty-six authors who contributed essays (and the Foreword) to Southern Writers on Writing have new books out…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve already seen how I photo-bombed the place all weekend with pictures from the 2018…
Wednesday night I went to a reading at Burke’s Books here in Memphis for Daren Wang, who was reading…
This morning I finished reading my 29th book of 2017, New York Times Bestselling Author Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel,…