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 …
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 …