Anybody like a good pirate story? Yeah, me too. That’s how I ended up writing “Shalimar.” Well, sort of… Maybe you remember your granny wearing Shalimar, the perfume: sweet, musky, very la-di-da. That’s not the what I’m talking about here. My Shalimar exists in the air, a fantastical city inhabited by, well, I’m rushing ahead. […]
Shalimar! (pirates, not angels, but still…) Read More »
Have you ever had a place you just can’t get out of your head? For me that’s Cape May, a shore town I’ve been kind of obsessed with for the last, eh, 25 years or so. The town figures in so much of my writing, it’s a character of its own. Like in my middle
What happens when you write a book full of characters that tumble over each other and overlap in crazy ways? Especially when these kids attend a high school where everyone is in your beeswax on the daily and dating is about as secret as morning announcements. Let them live their best jumbled life. Sure, that
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Have you ever read a book where the author says, “It took a village to get this published” and then thanks a zillion people? I’ve done that as well, because it’s so true. You just can’t write a book in a void. Well, ok you can, but then no one but you and the cat
My Earliest Strong Girl Read More »