Editors are like nutritional supplements

In the olden days, when I was in high school, we wrote out our assignments by hand. Pen and paper. We even ruled a red line along the edge of the page as the margin. My friend Shelly said to me one day, the difference between her and our friend Victoria, was that if Shelly's … Continue reading Editors are like nutritional supplements

There’s book stuck in my birth canal

If writing a book is like pregnancy, then conception is the spark of ideas - exciting and new. Gestation is the long haul of writing, the all-day morning sickness, the lumpy lugging around of the protruding manuscript, and the occasional joyful kick and the happy knowledge that something is growing. When the thing is fully … Continue reading There’s book stuck in my birth canal