So, How’s Your Book?
Today in the car, my 12-year old daughter turned to me and said, “So, how’s your book?” She phrased the question like she was asking me about a person. The personification felt particularly apt since this book is like her…
Category: Writing
She’s a Full-Time Worker in Love with a Part-Time Gig
I don’t know a lot of people who write full time, only people who wish that they could. The reality of mortgages or rent, cupcake expenditures and socks without holes tends to relegate those wishes to the fantasy worlds we…
Lisa Borders Speaks with Dead Darlings About Her Novel The Fifty-First State
Following up on her critically-acclaimed debut novel Cloud Cuckoo Land, Lisa Borders’ new release, The Fifty-First State, explores the lives of half-siblings Hallie and Josh Corson, brought together in Southern New Jersey following their parents’ untimely deaths. An influential Grub…
My Top Five (Male) Novel Protagonists and Why They Matter
Go Figure: Musings from the Mind of Rob Wilstein When I’m drivin’ in my car And that man comes on the radio He’s tellin’ me more and more About some useless information Supposed to fire my imagination… My imagination was…
The Past is Perfect
Go Figure: Musings from the Mind of Rob Wilstein Do you love to exercise? Do you crave the horrible gasping for breath, cold sweat, light-headed, skin-tingling terror of being thrown from the treadmill or sideswiped by the next eighteen-wheeler on…
Travels With Charley – My (imaginary?) Muse
I have a muse named Charley. I call him a muse but honestly I’m not sure what he is. More than likely he’s a product of my imagination, except that sometimes he says stuff I would never say or even…