As an author, I’m often asked to write blurbs for up and coming books. Quite often. Of course, it’s a huge honor that an author or their editor would value your work enough to ask you to provide a blurb for them. It’s especially touching when it’s someone’s debut novel and they write you a gushing request letter. But this is also challenging because if I said yes to every request, my name would be on way too many books. Readers would get sick of seeing my blurbs. They’d think, “Her again? Well, this doesn’t mean anything because she blurbs everything!” So, somewhere along the line I decided to limit myself to one blurb per year. I definitely want to support other writers, but I also want my blurb to mean something special. I want my quote to indicate that I connected really strongly with this work. Read More...

As an author, I'm often asked to write blurbs for up and coming books. Quite often. Of course, it's a huge honor that an author…

Two thoughts for the day. First, I’ve been meaning to post this bulletin for any aspiring writers in my local NY, NJ, PA area. My good friend and fabulous author, Clara Gillow Clark, will be giving a workshop and if you’re at all interested in writing, you should definitely attend. Clara has a real gift for creating memorable characters and settings. Here’s the information: Read More...

Two thoughts for the day. First, I've been meaning to post this bulletin for any aspiring writers in my local NY, NJ, PA area. My good friend and fabulous author,…

Have you heard about the woman who wrote a memoir that recounted her experiences growing up in foster care, as a half white, half native American, raised by a black mother and caught up in gang warfare? It turns out that none of it was true and she is, in fact, all white and was raised in a typical middle/upper class family. In fact, it was her sister that blew the whistle on her. Read More...

Have you heard about the woman who wrote a memoir that recounted her experiences growing up in foster care, as a half white, half native…