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Those Pesky Reviews About those pesky reviews. Reviews are the bane and the joy of every writer’s life, something we dread and crave at the same time. Oh, the highs when we [...]

Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils Three black and white composition notebooks. Three dozen sharpened #2 pencils. Three weeks out on the water. Every July, this combination results in a multitude [...]

Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back centuries where the American West lives on in aura and story. Whether [...]

Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread In this Time of Coronavirus, there’s been an uptick in reading, puzzle piecing, game playing, and bread baking as people find themselves with extra hours in [...]

This Not-So-Little Light of Mine You might say I’ve always been a walking poster child of Henry Dixon Loes’s classic Sunday School song: This little light of mine! I’m gonna let it [...]