Some of you may remember that several months ago I took off chasing some dreams. I packed two suitcases and left everything behind. I was determined to get out into a world of my choosing and finally make it as a writer no matter what the costs. It’s been one hell of a trip.
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It’s been absolutely killing me not to share this news. But I’m going to have the amazing Lance Reynald do the honors. I am so very happy for him, you have no idea! Here’s Lance…
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This week’s wrap seems such a hard one to start. It feels as though it’s such a long one coming, but […]
One of the most important motivations behind my move to Portland was literature.
The city is home to the Wordstock Festival, Powell’s City of Books, Tin House Magazine and the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
Before I even made my first trip to visit I’d wandered it’s streets with Katherine Dunn in Geek Love, learned its secrets with […]
I have a great affection for debut novels. Having finished my own attempt at one this fall I finally had time to dive back in and see what we have going on out there in the field.
If you were to ask a handful of friends, some of them might say I have good instincts. Now […]
I’m not much of a name dropper, sadly I can never seem to remember the names. So, I bungle it at dinner parties.
I tend to get anxiety in social situations. Always feeling like I won’t have anything interesting to say. Trivia helps. My mind seems to retain loads of the trivial. If I’ve dead-ended subjects […]
Lines marking the road.
Lines of a journey.
Lines on a map.
Things to be crossed, followed, broken and blurred.
As writers we deal with all kinds of lines, and everything we see between them.
A funny thing occurred to me in this interview, a certain subjective quality to literature. Those broken lines, what line a writer follows […]
Left or right?
A fork in the road?
College or Europe?
As writers we get to tinker a bit with our endings. Sometimes it’s the one perfect ending that consumes our long hours in front of the screen.
It’s that power over narrative that leads me into some trouble now and then. You meet someone new, the […]
…but I’m sick and tired of reading novels, I want something that startles me. Something far away yet deep inside, hard to reason with and hard to hide. One day all of this will surface”¦ - “Until We Get There,” Coho
Ya’ll still with me? Crazy habit I have of adding a soundtrack to […]
I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. Everyone around me seemed to pick it up with Dick, Jane and Spot in the first grade, I remained back in the special reading group until well into the second grade. Looking back I think this might be due to the fact that Dick and […]
“a book should be as an axe, to break the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka.
I think that Franz K. might have been on to something there. But, how?
As writers we all struggle to come in to our own. To find our voice. We study, we read, we workshop and we write, […]
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