So…why write, again? Last weekend, I had the honor of giving a book talk and participating in an author panel hosted by Pikes Peak Writers, and the question came up over and over again as we shared the difficulties of things like getting noticed, figuring out royalty statements, dealing with
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One of the motivations behind The Heroine’s Bookshelf was to remind readers (and myself) that we are protagonists of our own lives. Call me egotistical, but I don’t see any reason why we can’t see ourselves as heroines, stars of our own particularly tricky novels, no matter how mundane or
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Happy National Library Week! In light of that happy event and my Friday appearance at the Boulder Book Store’s Revival of the Classics event, I’ve got classics on the mind. When people hear that The Heroine’s Bookshelf deals with “classic” authors and books, there are two normal reactions: the thrilled
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You know how sometimes all conversation, media consumption, and thought seems to coalesce into a Grand Theme for a moment? Well, lately, a cool 69 days since The Heroine’s Bookshelf was released by Harper, the theme has been (im)perfection. Like many of you, I enjoyed Black Swan and Tron: Legacy
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My favorite part of readings and bookstore events is, by far, the Q&A period. Opinions mesh and mingle, I am inevitably surprised by a question I’d never thought of, and I get to try to make sense of some really snappy and insightful quandaries. At one of my recent events,
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