When to Let That Novel Go
I recently returned from my annual writing retreat with my fabulous writing group, the Salt + Radish Writers. We go every year and spend four days in a rambling, old Maine house on the beach. We have a schedule, stick…
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Beyond the Closet: Writing Gay Characters (An Update)
For my monthly Dead Darlings post, I had planned to write about the things I’m happy I did before my book deal was announced. But then 49 members and allies of the LGBTQ community — mostly young, mostly latinx — were…
Friday Feast: LGBT Reads, Open Letter to Writers Regarding Disability in Fiction, “Book Marks” Reviews, Reader Entitlement, and 15 New Books by Black Authors to Dive Into This Summer
June is Pride month. It’s the one month where I get to be unabashedly gay gay gay. But lesbehonest, I’m pretty gay every day. And my bookshelf reflects that. But there’s always room for more books to add to the…
Notebook Versus Laptop
I work in a tech company where most of the employees hover around the age of thirty. They grew up with computers. They are experts in Apple devices. They live and die by technology. I come in as the oldster…
Friday Feast: A Guide to Writing Fat Characters, Book Prices & Writing Value, Writers of Color Roundtable, an Anti-HB2 Book Tour of North Carolina, and Judy Blume on Independent Bookstores
Like a lot of high school graduates, Judy Blume had planned to take a gap year — after writing her last novel. But the opportunity to open a book shop, Books & Books in Key West, was too tempting to resist….
It’s The Company You Keep
I used to hang around a bunch of poets. Not because I liked them—they were snobbish in their elegiac greatness—but because as poets, they were guaranteed to get rejected more often than I. My novel was dead in the water while…