For marketing reasons, I wrote a prequel to Mission 1: All in a Day’s Work, the first book in my Sophia of the Bright Read Sneakers...

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To-Do on the Business End of Writing Read all those emails from the writers and entrepreneurs that already know what I need to know. Make...

During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...

YIKES! (That’s the nicest word I could think of.) Are you telling me I have to get out there and talk to people and collaborate with...

In 1406, Charles and his first wife and cousin were married. He was twelve, and she was seventeen and already a widow. She died of...

Knowing why you write before, during, and after self-publishing a book is important. The reasons why you write determine what story you...

After putting out my first book last week, I had an endless list of things to do to market it. I was overwhelmed and exhausted and could...

I was deciding what to write about today and then it occurred to me. What else could I write about but my anxiety about getting...

One of the nastiest words in the writing world has to be "typo." I discovered that today, but luckily it was me who found it and it's...

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Several weeks ago, I scribbled a brief article on an interview by Writers Cooperative with the author, Amy Tan. She spoke about the...

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Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...

This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...

As many of you may know, the U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. If...