“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill How artists motivate themselves has become a favorite topic of mine. I’ve started writing about some of the people who’ve stirred my past, present, and future creativity with a post called Motivation Monday, where I choose one of the writers, artists,… Continue Reading
Just in time for your summer reading list, Certain Liberties hits shelves today! It is available to buy from Amazon.com and other online book sellers worldwide. It also comes complete with a section dedicated to book club questions! Thank you all for your continued support and encouragement as Emily Alden prepares for her debut performance!… Continue Reading
If you wish the profound, generous, encompassing things, New York is your natural center of gravity Walt Whitman insisted, and you’ll get no contrary argument from me. How often I’ve written of my love for New York as a stimulant for daily living and writing! The sounds and sights, to say nothing of the energies… Continue Reading
“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.” ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth — I’m often asked how I get the core inspiration for my novels. There are many different ways authors feel that lightning strike, but they fall into similar categories. Some will tell you they sense… Continue Reading
“A historian must “reconstruct” history by using “historical imagination” to “re-enact” the thought processes of historical persons based on information and evidence from historical sources.” The Idea of History– R. G. Collingwood ******** If we’re referring only to the images in our brains from light hitting objects in front of us, then people from the… Continue Reading
“writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”—Pico Iyer Most of you have heard my stories about readers challenging my sanity when I started the blog almost ten years ago. It was hard for people to understand why I’d put so much time and energy into writing not… Continue Reading