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Its almost the end of the year and Im thinking of course- being an introspective, self-absorbed kind of person- of everything that happened to ME this year. The NY Book Expo; appearing at a big Borders store in front of […]

…COMES ALL MANNER OF THINGS,” says the poet. Well not my babe, because all that comes out of her mouth is half-digested rice cereal or mushed banana. In this case were talking about wisdom and that peculiarly insightful and trenchant […]

Once upon a time, I had a wonderful agent. She was not a hand-holder precisely- supposedly all agents fall into 2 categories: fuzzy hand-holders and hard-as-nails wheeler dealers- but she was incisive, ambitious and infectiously enthusiastic and she worked at […]

…are not an item according to a source close to both; however they are very good friends. I am going to make a shameful admission. Rather than plunge headlong into the mystical and chaotic world that will become “Feltus Ovalton […]

I’ll be reading from my book, “The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton” and perhaps a few pages from the new manuscript, and then answering questions and discussing the writing process on Monday November 26th at Barnes and Noble in Kingston, […]

I was going to call this blog, Imagination, but the Minds Eye sounded more, well, imaginative. I worry a lot about running out of ideas for books. I look at authors like Lloyd Alexander and Susan Cooper and Eva Ibbotson […]

A good friend of mine is a successful writer. By this I mean that if she was single and didnt have to pay for health insurance, she could survive on the money she makes from her books. As it is […]

This is kind of a general question directed at other writers (or ‘authors as I try to say with solemn reserve- thats what my business card indicates but it always makes me feel as if Im 10 years old and […]

I just finished writing the rough draft of my new book. Although I would argue that it is better than a rough draft. I did a lot of revising throughout, went back over it a number of times to make […]

Ok, I know I should probably have put a ? at the end of that line but I figured more people would be likely to read the blog with a headline like that. I’m not altogether perpetrating a falsehood because […]