The next book is due out August 21. Now I’m in that odd space in which I’m working on the next-next and next-next-next books (one a Young Adult novel, the…View post

What happens when you’re working on a book manuscript and your emergency pager goes off and you don’t have anything handy for writing down the address so you just type…View post

Looking for my copy of Feast of Snakes. I know it was on the shelf in the “dining room” (read: bachelor library) of my old house. So I took a…View post

Pursuant to my recent post on copyeditors, below are some of the comments left by the copyeditor of my most recent manuscript (book due out in August). Even out of…View post

Just recently my editor taught me when to use “elder daughter” instead of “eldest.” Today my copyeditor taught me that these {} are called French braces. Sometimes I get questions…View post