I have the kind of voice that’s meant to whisper. Good for libraries and pillow talk. When I answer the phone, the first thing people tend to say is, Did I wake you up? They didn’t; I don’t even like to sleep. I just have one of those voices. It’s my father’s voice. The sound [...]
Attica Locke has written movie scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, and is currently co-writing a miniseries for HBO about the civil rights movement. But it’s her debut novel, BLACK WATER RISING*, that has satisfied her need to write original material and find her own voice.
This literary thriller is about a good [...]
Describe your voice. I’m just curious to know if you have an accent, a loud laugh, a stutter, ….
Wednesday, Attica Locke will be here to talk about her new literary thriller, BLACK WATER RISING, and the importance of finding her voice.
*
Last thing: My kids performed in a Southern Rock show over the weekend with THE [...]
If you haven’t seen very much of me in the last two months, it’s because I’m right about here in the new book:
Just after Thanksgiving, I took out a blank piece of paper and started to think about the things I love and the things I fear and the questions I’ve always wanted answers to; [...]
Lac Su left his homeland of Vietnam under gunfire, and at age five, began his life in America in an apartment teeming with drugs and prostitutes. His memoir, I LOVE YOUS ARE FOR WHITE PEOPLE*, tells the story of his search for a sense of worth and belonging from a violent father and local gangs. [...]
Say you come across a kid who hurts the way you did as a child. Tell me what you’d say or do that might make a difference to him. Or, to put it another way, what’s the thing you wish someone had done for you?
Wednesday, Lac Su will be here to discuss his memoir, I [...]
If my in-laws lived in Kansas, that’s where I would be right now. Alas, they live in Hawaii.
(That’s my mother-in-law’s house and Mr. Henderson’s behind.)
I’m taking this month off from LitPark, but I thought this would be a good time for us to share our various websites. I’ll list mine here:
Twitter
MySpace (me, LitPark)
FaceBook (me, LitPark)
Now, [...]
I was thinking about the years my kids were still into wearing costumes - no holiday required - and we’d head to the bookstore: me, Superman with a dishtowel for a cape, and his sidekick in a knight’s helmet, shorts, rubber boots and a whistle necklace which he was not to blow in the store.
My [...]
Today, I’d like you to meet Ann Kingman, a book lover, blogger, and District Sales Manager for one of the major publishing houses. We’ll be talking about what she does with your books in that window of time between turning in your final edits and seeing your book for sale. She’ll also share her opinion [...]
Tell me where you buy your books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, an independent bookstore?
And since there’s so much talk about the changing habits of readers, tell me if your buying and reading habits have changed in the past few years, and how.
Thanks for answering this one because I think it’s at the heart of the [...]
all posts