Barbara Kingsolver and I once did a conversation together in a little town in North…
Category: Ann’s Blog
I’ve been struggling with back story lately. How much does the reader need to know?…
Picture me writing my novel, head down, fingers flying, type, type, type. I really don’t…
In 1985, when I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, my best…
I’m sitting in the airport, feeling terrible about Philip Roth’s death. I’ve been a devoted…
Let’s imagine that for each of us there is a basic self and an extraneous…
I’d worked with Liz Sullivan before. She’s an executive editor at Harper Collins, the person…
People like to know how writers become writers, and in my case a big piece…
I’m writing a novel. It’s going okay. I wrote a chunk of it over the…
January is a month for diet books, exercise manuals and a host of self-improvement programs.…
