Krystie Lee Yandoli lists 22 books at Buzzfeed that “you pretend you’ve read but actually haven’t.” The story notes a Guardian survey that suggests that most people lie and say…Continue readingDid you really read it?
My experience with the Rainforest Writers Retreat on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington began last Wednesday when Colleen Anderson drove down from Vancouver, Canada, and picked me up in Bellingham.…Continue readingRetreating into the rainforest
Let me tell you about my encounter with Coyote… So begins my guest blog today at the Mythical Monday spot at Melissa Hayden’s website My World…in words and pages: the-kunadalin…Continue readingEncounters with The Trickster
After discussing at length J.K. Rowling’s regrets about the Hermione/Ron relationship in Harry Potter, Elizabeth Minkel wrote in The Millions about five other authors who said they really wished they’d…Continue readingThe author regrets…
Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” is a novel about butterflies, about a messed up migration of monarchs which could lead to oblivion. It was a kick in the gut to read…Continue readingCan we stop Armageddon?
Kids are a tough audience and they scare me. Whenever I go for school visit to talk to kids about my books, I go in with some trepidation. But in…Continue readingThose scary school visits
Some last lines have the power to disrupt the course of an entire story, shaking up our expectations, the Huffington Post tells us. Others leave us hanging, and still others…Continue readingWhat’s your favorite last line?
Then forget champagne and candlelight dinners, Joni Rendon Shannon McKenna Schmidt write at the Daily Beast. Photo by Courtesy Everett Collection Writers—from Colette to Casanova to Raymond Chandler—and their significant…Continue readingWant to Seduce Like a Writer?
Maria Popova has assembled famous definitions of love from 400 years of literary history in a Brain Pickings article just in time for Valentine’s Day. They range from the profoundly…Continue readingDo you know what love is?
When I wrote my signature novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei, I considered it a fantasy. It’s roots lie in the world of Imperial China and the secret language of women…Continue readingJust what is alternate history?