In my Seattle writing class, I teach the art and craft of writing as well as the publication process. As part of this, I bring in outside experts to talk about various aspects of writing as well as publication. The process …
Tag: Book Tours.
Hijinks on the Book Tour
I’m always nervous before an interview. I like to arrive at least a half hour early, just to make sure I wouldn’t be late. As I entered the Spokane Public Radio KPBX studio, host Verne Windham shook hands with me, …
Book Tour Launch of Storms of Denali
I’ll be kicking off my book tour for The Storms of Denali on Thursday, July 12 at 7 p.m. at the Trail’s End Book Store in Winthrop, WA. Please stop by if you’re in the neighborhood! For other book tour …
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain -
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced…the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always.
Ernest Hemingway -
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for thousands of years.
Willa Cather
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“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia Marx
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