So, this is how it works. You sit alone, for hours and hours, and years and years, creating characters, telling stories, imagining lives. You live through the good days and the bad days. You slog away, you persevere, even when everything seems utterly hopeless and you think you’ll never write another word. Finally you have a book. Except that it’s …
Profile in Vox Magazine
Click here for a nice profile today in Vox magazine, the weekly sister magazine to the Columbia Missourian. I should say, in my defense, (jazz snob alert!) that the reference to “smooth jazz” was a little journalistic license on the part of the lady who came to interview me. I would hate for anyone to think that I’ve gone all …
Great Writers Coming to Columbia, MO!
My good friend Amy Stephenson, who runs Get Lost Bookshop in downtown Columbia – literally a stone’s throw from my office – is putting together a series of readings by wonderful authors. I’m very excited by the inaugural event, since it is a reading by fellow Amy Einhorn author and New York Times best-seller, Eleanor Brown, whose debut, THE WEIRD …
More Book News
Well, things are moving ahead. It now appears that we have a tentative date scheduled for the publication of A GOOD AMERICAN – January or February of 2012. It seems an awfully long way off right now but I know that there’s a lot to do in the forthcoming months and I will be kept extremely busy. I am told …
“Now the Fun Bit”
So, yesterday was a big day for me. I have lost count over the past couple of years how many times I have written on this blog that the book is “finished”. There have been so many drafts and rewrites that it makes my head spin. The difference then, of course, was that I was the only one who had …
Big Book News
More book news today… and for once, it’s actually about my book! While we were in Miami airport waiting for our flight to England – only four days later than planned, due to snow – I got an email from my editor and publisher, Amy Einhorn, with her comments on the rewrite to the book that I had been working …
THE WEIRD SISTERS is published today!
Regular visitors to this blog will be aware of my admiration for my friend and fellow Amy Einhorn Books author, Eleanor Brown. My twitter feed has lately been busy telling the world about the various amazing reviews (New York Times, anyone?) that this excellent debut novel has already garnered. ( I also posted about her classy book trailer here.) It …
Leavin’ On a Jet Plane. Maybe.
Let me see… it’s Tuesday, so I should be in London today, having lunch with my agent, Bruce. Except that I’m still here in Missouri, reading weather reports about unprecedented levels of snowfall that has put England into chaos. Flights have been grounded across Europe, roads have been blocked, trains halted. It’s all a terrible mess. Our flight has been …
The Most Feared Man in Missouri
OK, perhaps I am exaggerating slightly. But here’s what every well-dressed writer should be wearing this holiday season. Watch your friends quake in their boots! Or, um, not. Thanks to my friend Missy for one of the best gifts I’ve had for a while.
“The Weird Sisters” by Eleanor Brown
January 20, 2011 marks the publication of a great debut novel called THE WEIRD SISTERS, by author Eleanor Brown. Full disclosure here: Eleanor is an Amy Einhorn author, and although we haven’t met (yet) we have been carrying on a rather wonderful email correspondence over these past several months. She is a wonderful and very funny person (if you don’t …