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The cover art for the three books in the Club and Fang trilogy show different aspects of the werewolves that feature prominently in the books. As the third book in the trilogy came together, I’d need a cover. […]
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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is not your typical werewolf book. Werewolves have been twisted, molded, and (in my opinion) maligned in popular fiction and movies. Vampires have archetypal antecedents to draw on—Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Nosferatu, for […]
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My only writing this week was to rewrite the ending to a short story that I’ve been working on for… I don’t know how long. It’s been kicking around for at least ten years. I keep coming back […]
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The struggle for justice through love and forgiveness in a harsh land Thorns of Mesquite by Patricia Lee Lewis is a novel that paints the world of West Texas in the 1930s vividly using sights, smells, and sounds […]
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How is time organized in a novel? We were discussing the organizing principle(s) for a novel recently in one of my writing groups. Today I thought about a few books that I read recently and how they were […]
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When Valentine’s Day comes around, I think about Ophelia’s madness and a particular song she sings in Act 4, Scene 5 of Hamlet. At a surface level, the song is Ophelia’s sly, defiant blast at Hamlet’s rejection. Most […]
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2025 was an amazing year for writing. In January, I finished the first draft of the novel I’ve been working on since 2021. In March, I dove into a ten-month class on novel revision. A second draft was […]
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Brooding over the question of why werewolves bite.
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I appreciate the craft in Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads. Franzen can make complicated sentences live on the page. He excels at weaving flashbacks into narrative. Much of Crossroads takes place over one day, following five members of a […]
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The class critique of my first-draft manuscript is over – now the work begins for a second revision! The critique entailed receiving feedback in the form of letters and annotations on the manuscript – eight people’s feedback, our […]
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