Now that The Talking Drum has launched with great fanfare, I’ve been able to spend some noodling with the draft…
We are excited to welcome to The Debutante Ball Ava Homa, who is the critically-acclaimed of the novel DAUGHTERS OF…
Television news is a young person’s game. I first heard that assertion from my broadcast journalism professors and class advisors,…
Our topic this week is the books that inspired us to be writers. I think I’ve covered this in previous…
When I look back at my elementary school years, some of my fondest memories were the days when the teacher…
Ok seriously: Lainey Cameron is among the kindest and most generous writers I’ve met in the last five years since…
I remember going to a conference and one of the presenters talking about how she wrote her novel, and then…
I have to confess that when I eyed the topic for this week that I didn’t really want to write…
My first manuscript was a twenty-thousand-word trashfire of a multi-generational family saga. I’d decided to try being a novelist (New…
This week’s topic is “The Manuscript in the Drawer.” But I have no manuscript in the drawer. The Talking Drum…