Category: blog

September 30, 2019

My Visit to Gettysburg College

I had the pleasure of visiting Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA last week at the invitation of the English Department and its writing program….
September 23, 2019

Q&A

I enjoy being interviewed because the questions always make me think. Sometimes they are written queries and responses, sometimes they are recorded podcasts. Recently,…
September 16, 2019

2019 SIBA Discovery Show

I had the pleasure of attending the Southern Independent Booksellers’ Alliance 2019 Discovery Show in Spartanburg, SC this past weekend. It was fun to…
September 11, 2019

Prague

For no particular reason, I recently visited Prague. I had never been there before, and I love walkable, historic cities, so . . ….
September 7, 2019

1455 Literary Arts Summer Litfest

I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural 1455 Summer Litfest in Winchester, VA in July. 1455 is a new literary arts organization with…
August 31, 2019

2019 Reading — August

I’m not sure why, but I only read five books this month. Possibly because the book club selection this month was a slog. Beautiful…
August 1, 2019

2019 Reading–July

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver is the story of a house. Or two houses. Specifically, it’s about Willa Knox, a writer whose family has inherited…
July 8, 2019

TSOTV Reviews

Two reviews of The Shaman of Turtle Valley appeared last week. One was an article in Virginia Living for which the author interviewed me….
July 1, 2019

2019 Reading–June

At this rate, I will have read close to 80 books by the end of the year, probably a record for me. On the…
June 30, 2019

Big Apple Visit

Between two appearances in Virginia—see this post for details—I jetted (trained? railed?) up to New York City for a few days. The main purpose…