Please forgive me for playing hooky from my blog on Mental Health Monday. We were in Charleston and it was…
Last Wednesday I gave a preview of the YOK Writing Workshop I would be attending this past weekend in…
This Friday I’m headed to Oxford, Mississippi, for the 2014 YOK Workshop for writers. It will be my 7th year…
I love historical fiction. But I especially like books that bend the genre a bit by speculating on stories that…
(Nautilus Publishing; September 10, 2013; $24.95; ISBN: 978-936-946-17-4) I hated to miss the launch of former Ole Miss Chancellor, Robert…
When Beth Ann Fennelly and her husband, Tom Franklin, finished writing their first collaborative book, The Tilted World, they celebrated…
There’s nothing surprising about another book being published by an author from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner’s town has been turning out…
Four years ago I made one of many trips down to Oxford, Mississippi, where I went to school (the first…
It’s been over six months since I began the process of querying agents for my novel, Cherry Bomb. When the…
Back in September, my friend, Neil White, gave me an advance reader copy of a wonderful little book his publishing…