This is not another article complaining about homophobia in America. This is not another plea for us to lobby for human rights, write our congressional leaders, or combat the religious right. This is a wake-up call, to take a good hard look at our own community and acknowledge the ways in which we sabotage ourselves. […]
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If You’re Cranky and You Know It…
Some writers should consider another format, such as oral story telling, film-making, or photo-essay. Yes, find some other method of communication that doesn’t involve spelling, grammar and punctuation. I’m all for supporting my kindred struggling authors, but damn it! Edit your freaking work before you inflict it on me, especially for a review! I don’t […]
Continue readingA Favorite Excerpt From Rose’s Will
…On one particular afternoon, I took Rose to lunch at the Jewish deli. By that time we were extremely familiar – Rose’s kind of familiar, which made it acceptable for her to buy clothes for me with my money and without my presence. Rose and I stood in front of the deli case at Adelman’s, […]
Continue readingNo Mo NaNoWriMo
YAY me!!! At 5:27 a.m. this morning, I completed an intense, month-long writing challenge in only 29 days. The goal: Write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. (To put my awesomeness in perspective, It took me over 10 years to write Rose’s Will, a 68,000 word novel.) In order to reach my NaNoWriMo goal, […]
Continue readingThe Awakening
THE DREAM What do you do? I’m a writer. Really? What have you published? A novel called Rose’s Will. That’s exciting! Where can I get a copy? On Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and of course, directly from my publisher. THE AWAKENING (During intermission at the theatre, my partner addressed an acquaintance.) Did you know that […]
Continue readingReviews and Reactions
Yesterday I opened an email with WOW in the subject line, and in the body of the post, she wrote: “I’ve just finished Rose’s Will. I have no idea what to say. You are a gifted writer.” It was not a review. It was a reaction, the kind of visceral reaction that makes it worth […]
Continue readingFictionalizing A Memoir
Even if you’ve survived cancer, changed your sexual preference, got hit by lightning, suffered a psychotic break, and won the lottery, it doesn’t guarantee that you will be able to write a publishable memoir. I learned this the hard way. My novel, Rose’s Will, started out as a memoir, but memoirs are difficult because one […]
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