Hey everyone, I heard someone complain recently about how no one wants to buy her books. More specifically, this bitchfest revolved around how people email or tweet her to ask for free books when she’s worked years on them on how this is completely unreasonable. It is. But so is the bitchfest. If you want […]

Hey everyone, Yesterday evening, on a live Q&A with my community, The Finishers, I admitted that I was finally beginning to feel impatient and frustrated about having a novel out on submission. This is a strange and new feeling for me. One of the benefits of being as prolific as I am is that I don’t […]

Last week I stood overlooking a lake close to my house and thought, I created this life. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in my early years that could have pointed towards this—where I live, who I have married, my career, and in particular, the outspoken and independent person I have become. Where I come from, women don’t […]

I started writing my novel in January 2011. I intended it to be a work of crime fiction told from the point of view of three characters, but a week after I sat down to write, I had 20,000 words and the first narrator was still going on and on (and on) about her mother. […]