Thinking about promoting books and how stories get attention in the world
How a Debut Novel is like Jane Austen's Lizzy Bennet Rachael Hanel, in my writing group, posted this rather hilarious, but also disconcerting blog link on our group discussion page. I think it's so appropriate that I had to pass it along. It came along just as I was...
A great review of Jake Riley I had forgotten
I just had a flashback. My editor Mark McVeigh at HarperCollins for my first book, Jake Riley, Irreparably Damaged, called and left a voicemail because he was so excited about this review from Kirkus. He read the whole thing into my voicemail, and I saved that message...
Biking, then and now.
Snapped both these photos this week. Somehow, it seems ironically perfect for my birthday month. 50 years ago, I got the bike on the left for my June birthday. And here I was earlier this week on a solo gravel ride (with a new-this-year gravel bike). 50 years...
Summer and Slider's Son
Slider's Son and Summer. First, have I mentioned that summer is magical? That summer is hands-down my favorite season, favorite time, and as I grow older, I want more than ever to eek out every second of sunshine and warmth and bike-riding, star-gazing and bonfires...
North Star Press, Frank Weber, school
Today, Frank Weber came to South Central College to talk about his experience as a forensic psychologist and about the novel he's written, based on his inside information and expertise, Murder Book. Over forty people crammed into the biggest classroom on campus. The...
Career Expo
Once again, this past Wednesday, I was a "storyteller" at Mankato's Career Expo at the Civic Center for area high school freshmen and sophomores. The event includes rooms of "Storytellers" who sit at tables. The students "speed date" around the tables, finding out...
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