This is such a delicious book. I’m 2/3’s through it and rationing it, reading other less wonderful books at the same time, so I don’t gobble it up all at once. Jess Walter has written a wonderful read with real plot, characters you care about and right-on details of place and time. I went to…
Please come to Diesel Books in Brentwood next Tuesday (June 18th) if you’re in LA. We’re having a party for KICKING IN THE WALL and some of my fabulous students who are in the book will be reading, and I’ll talk about how to kickstart your writing with 5 minute exercises. Oh, and did…
It is now September. I don’t know how it can be September but it is and no doubt you’re as stunned as I am at how fast the summer went. I’m sitting at my computer up in Montana trying to write an essay that’s part of a book proposal I need…
Two of my wonderful students have started a website and are taking submissions for essays to publish on line. (Be sure to check out their very funny letter to Dan Jones, editor of the New York Times Modern Love Column.) Here’s the info: The new website Post Modern Love (www.postmodernlove.com) was established to broaden…
I spent three days in Yellowstone National Park this week – a place of such winter stillness and beauty and solitude that all I did was take notes on what I was seeing and thinking. So I was amazed at the timing of this HARO e-mail response for advice to writers (see last…
Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life Into Story has just been published by New World Library. (www.amazon.com) It covers all the genres of creative writing, offers guidelines for each, inspiration, reading suggestions and writing exercises. If you know anyone besides yourself, anyone at all on this planet who wants to write his or her life…
Check out: www.BookTour.com If you’ve published a book, this is a terrific new website to list your book and any talks, appearances, signings you have lined up (and for free!) It’s also an easy way to find out when your favorite authors will be in town. Based on the premise that “technology can transform…
I feel like I’m dialing for dates. I’m surfing the net for writing groups and bookstores – looking for places to talk about my book when it’s published. Talk, give free workshops – I’m available! This is what happens when your book is about to be published. The official pub date for Courage & Craft…
Call for Submissions:EARS XXI is a digital media company founded by Christopher Coppola. His wife, Adrienne Coppola, a former student of mine and a wonderful writer, is the editor of the new EARS XXI on-line magazine and I just got this e-mail from her: We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, as well as…
