Although my presentation this month on Anna Katharine Green will be covering more than just her first book, The Leavenworth Case has enough to say about itself it could be an entire presentation unto itself. Instead, I’ll share some more about it here, as a taster for what’s to come in the presentation. We open …
Last week I shared all the amazing quotes from Jim Butcher at NASFiC 2019. This week I’ll share some other quotes from panelists. So many wonderful things were said, but here’s a few highlights. This first one is something I’ve heard Howard Tayler say before on Writing Excuses, and I’d written it down as something …
Let me introduce you to Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files series, the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series. If you’ve never heard him speak live, I highly recommend it. Not only is he hilarious (ala Dresden himself, of course), but he really knows what he’s talking about! He definitely is a …
There was a time when the editor of the publishing house did everything regarding editing, from picking the story to publish, to laying out the story, to editing the story. But times have changed. These days, that one job is done by multiple people, even at small publishing houses. When I launched the novel department …
I wanted to take a moment to write about one of my top sources for first-person accounts of Spokane in 1901. Dear Mother is “A collection of letters and photographs describing many conditions in and around Spokane in 1901-1902” by Marinus (“Marien”) Crommelin. Although originally written in Dutch, Patrick Serné, Marien’s grandson, has taken …
