Resistentialism

Photo Credit: Commedia dell'arte Scene in an Italian Landscape, Peeter van Bredael, 17th/18th century, detail, oil on canvas: FA2010/Wikimedia Commons/PD Old 100 “‘At the bottom of every process of obtaining creative material for our work is emotion.’” (Stanislavsky, Chap. V, pg. 101; emphasis added) Last week, I had the honor of being a guest on …

Author Dream Series: Christina Hoag

Here’s the February post for the Author Dream Series where guest authors talk about their writing dreams. Please welcome author Christina Hoag! When I was about six years old, I won a prize for “writing interesting stories” so I think writing was a gift I was born with. As a kid, I loved books – …

The Author-Editor Partnership

One of the most famous editors who was known to be the writer’s collaborator was Maxwell Perkins. As editor of Scrivener’s, he infamously nurtured the talents of writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Photo Credit: Photo of Maxwell Perkins, 1943, New York World Telegram and Sun newspaper, Library of Congress Prints …

Radio Interview on KPFA Radio

Photo Credit: Vintage retro antique radio photo, created February 26, 2016 by Lubos Houska: LubosHouska/ Pixabay/CC0 1.0 I am so excited to post my first radio interview! A friend of mine, author/performer/radio host Jovelyn Richards chatted with me for KPFA’s Cover to Cover Open Book about my new release Gnarled Bones and Other Stories. You …

Dream: Influence of Dreams on Reality

Anais Nin had a dream of a houseboat which led her to write the short story “Houseboat” which appeared in her collection Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories, and also to rent a houseboat on the Seine in the 1930’s. Photo Credit: Houseboats, Loch Lomond, George Leslie Hunter, 1924: Pimbrils/Wikimedia Commons/PD Old 70 “Why …

February Valentine’s Social Media Giveaway

Here’s a great chance to win a mega Amazon gift card just in time for Valentine’s Day and connect with great authors! The grand prize is a $190 Amazon gift card. There will also be 26 winners who will get a free ebook (one of them might be mine). The giveaway will run between February …

Strangers Working in Strange Lands

 Photo Credit: Freud with some of his followers. Otto Rank is standing behind Freud’s chair. 1922. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: Prosopee/Wikimedia Commons/PD EU no author disclosure “[I]f we want to catch glimpses of the truths that govern human culture and behavior, we must open ourselves to the wisdom, no matter how surprising …