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So, it’s been a year since I did my last blog entry. Clearly, I must not be interested. But why, I ask myself? Well, there’s the fact that I’m one of those introverts (aren’t most writers?) who have trouble with small talk. Give me a big theme, and I can write a...Family and Facebook
I’m not sure how coherent this is going to be, but an idea has been going round and round my head and is screaming to get out…. I’ve written about family in DAMAGED PEOPLE, but the fact is – in real life – I’m sequestered in Philadelphia with my husband. Now, Philly...Book reading of DAMAGED PEOPLE at Penn Book Center, 130 S. 34th St, Philadelphia; Sept 27, 2017 @ 6 pm
My luck. It turns out that the exact time and date of my reading coincides with a free book reading by Colson Whitehead, four blocks away at the Wolf Humanities Center of University of Pennsylvania. I can just imagine a whole crowd of people making the hard choice...Snowflakes in a Blizzard features BANANA KISS
https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/ Thanks so much to Darrell Laurant’s Snowflakes in a Blizzard blog for featuring BANANA KISS this 4th of July. It’s nice to know someone feels BK is still fresh and relevant...A great video review of Damaged People from Acacia Ives
...It’s a small world
I can’t help but notice, as several reviews come in on DAMAGED PEOPLE from Goodreads and elsewhere, that if social media works, it can be an amazing thing. Of course, that’s not news to most people. In fact, not even to me. I wrote a book in 2010 – back in the...Excerpt from DAMAGED PEOPLE
DAMAGED PEOPLE is set to be released June 28! In recognition of that, I decided to add an excerpt just to give a flavor or it. This chapter – the hospital scene – was originally the first in the book. On rewrite, I decided it would be better off as...Why I write
The first question people ask is how I go about writing. You’d think that would mean what inspires me but more likely it means: When do you sit down in the morning? How many hours do you put in? Do you plan the whole plot ahead? Well, I tell them, I sit down in...Featured Books
Damaged People
Like The Corrections, it is literary, edgy and character-based. Like We Are Not Ourselves, it is a moving multi-generational novel. Unlike them, however, Damaged People has a premise founded in cutting-edge science: that powerful environmental conditions routinely leave imprints in our genetic material, short-circuiting evolution and passing along new traits in a single generation.
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