Something To Write Home About
One thing I’ve been trying to do with my writing lately is to set a playlist. It’s a trick I picked up from my friend Tudor Robins, who listened to Taylor Swift’s early stuff while writing her first big book, Appaloosa Summer. If you’ve read it, you’ll see how it’s a perfect fit – dreamy pop country, all about young…
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Okay, that may be overstating it a bit. But seriously, my husband has discovered audiobooks, and it’s been an exciting thing. I know, I know, we are a little behind the times. Better late than never! I’m not an audio person myself. I find it really hard to concentrate just by listening. I’m best at it in the car, when…
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I love a magazine. At one point – just after my first child was born – I think I subscribed to about 10 different titles. As you can imagine, with a newborn in the house, things did start to pile up. . Happily, before we got to hoarder levels, I discovered that I could nurse and/or hold a sleeping baby…
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My apologies for the last minute notice on this, but I’ll be doing a public reading tomorrow, Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Come hear me read one of the stories from my book, Ten at the Wedding, and you can pick up a copy there, too, if you don’t have one yet. It’s in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, where…
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It’s been a while since I wrote anything of substance. It’s been a busy fall, and what little time I have for writing has been focused on getting the book out, promoting the book, doing events with the book. There hasn’t been a lot of time to just sit down with a pen and a notebook and dream. That’s why…
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My husband read my new book. It was really hard for me to resist asking him whether or not he liked it. Because we all know there’s only one possible answer to that question, for the sake of my happiness and the continued success of our marriage, so why bother asking at all? So although of course I wanted reassurance,…
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