I’ve begun something new: The Typewriter Project. Inspired by the acquisition of a Smith-Cornona Coronamatic 2500, I’ll be writing at least two pages a day on this noisy, strange, glorious machine. The goal: a draft of a book in six …
Stories are like relationships: the beginning is always so much fun, and the ending is fraught with turmoil. When I sit down to start a story, the first sentence just sort of comes to me. The second sentence too. If I’m …
As some of you may already know, the working title for The Year of Fog was Ocean Beach. My publisher made it clear that there was no way the novel was going to come out with the title “Ocean Beach.” For …
Why does everything sound better in French? I came across this charming youtube video of a French reader reviewing Le R’eve D’Amanda Ruth, the French translation of Dream of the Blue Room. (I love the French title, which translates as …
