So Many Books to Choose from! One of the most awesome things about trying to choose just a handful of book titles to highlight is that there are so many to choose from! For that reason, I want to offer a big encouraging THANK YOU to anyone who writes. Sharing Read more
Banned Books Week, Days 4, 5, and 6 Story Collections Versus Novels When I tell people that I’m a [fiction] writer, they tend to assume that I write novels. I don’t. Or, to be more precise, I haven’t yet. Maybe in the future. But here’s the thing: I love short Read more
Let’s “Czech” Out Some Short Stories! Czech literary history is rife with examples of censorship, but it’s a history we can learn from. For Banned Books Week days 2 and 3, I thought I’d highlight a couple of my favorite Czech short stories. I became interested in Czech literature quite Read more
Let’s Celebrate! Banned Books Week is a week for celebrating books. As a writer, I’m naturally an avid reader as well, so I like to think that I celebrate the written word on a daily basis. Even so, I’m always excited when there’s a special slot of time reserved on Read more
Read Banned Books I have a vague recollection of reading the short story “Enoch” by Robert Bloch when I was in junior high. We’re talking over thirty years ago, so I don’t really recall the story at all, and I haven’t read it again since. I only remember it as Read more
The Singular “They” Thirty(ish) years ago, my English teachers discouraged my peers and me from using the singular they (them, their, etc.) in our writing. For the papers I wrote in high school, using the phrase he or she (or his or her) was common in order to avoid the Read more