Jul 24, 2024 | On Writing
In the beginning, pen and paper were touted as the writer’s best friend. With the advent of the typewriter, writers took up writing by machine, and in the wake of computers, many authors—and the public at large—abandoned handwriting altogether. Typing has replaced...
May 15, 2024 | On Writing
Roses are red Violets are blue If Anthony Horowitz can have fun writing So can you. At a recent indie bookstore event, award-winning thriller writer Paul Doiron interviewed the one-and-only Anthony Horowitz, international bestselling author and screenwriter of such...
Apr 17, 2024 | On Writing
“There’s always the next book.” Louise DeSalvo That’s what Louise DeSalvo says. DeSalvo is the author of The Art of Slow Writing, which I purchased as a kind of hair shirt and read as a kind of guilty pleasure. As a mystery writer expected to turn out a book a year,...
Nov 29, 2023 | On Mindfulness, On Writing
This time of year, happiness is a blazing fire, a glass of wine, and a good book. Here in New England, where winters are long and cold and buried in snow, ‘tis the season for reading. My TBR pile is high—and so are my ambitions. Because while reading is one of my...
Nov 22, 2023 | On Writing
Persistence counts. In the film A Million Miles Away, Jose Hernandez’s teacher tells the migrant workers’ kid who dreams of being an astronaut that “persistence is your superpower.” (If you haven’t seen this film, based on Hernandez’s real-life story, do. It’s a...
