A by-product I never anticipated from my second career as a novelist is the emails I receive from readers. I don’t keep count, but I must be nearing a thousand. The majority of the emails are short thank-you notes, which I appreciate greatly. The next category of...

I've had the occasion to talk to several authors lately whose books have been published in foreign countries, and we have something in common – confusion. Our agents and sub-agents do all the work and we get books with words we don't understand to put on our...

One of the panels I took part in at the YA-hoo Festival at Chattanooga State over the weekend involved the writing process. Invariably, that discussion leads to "Where is the best place to write?" An upstairs room. A cruise ship. A coffee shop. The answers were as...