Stephen King lets his books “sit” for 6 weeks after he has written them. He says he is sometimes tempted to go admire a sentence that came out just right, or go fix something that he’s been mulling over, but if he RESISTS going back and just lets it SIT, then when he returns, he can see the book well enough to reshape it and polish it. I liken it to letting a cake cool If one cuts…
Book Expo America (BEA) is the largest book selling conference and expo in the US. It starts in NYC on Tuesday June 5th with a speaker-laden breakfast, and continues until Thursday June 7th at 5 PM. You can watch the live streaming right here. If…
For those of us who truly care about writing, owning our author-ity as an author is sometimes a challenge, both because there is almost always a writer more successful than we are, and also because there are so many pretenders. I was on a long…
Your way is the write way. You don’t have to show your writing to ANYone. You can, but you don’t have to. Just writing for yourself is very important. You don’t…
That is what co-owner Miranda Innes calls women who show up in at her Moroccan B&B alone. Yet I would not recommend it for the feminine faint of heart. A…
Citta della Pieve, Umbria. “Call me. I can do anything for you. AN-knee-theeng.” This strange man had just thrust his card in front of my face, so close that even…
Check out www.onebag.com . This website has a good packing list, as does Rick Steves’ website, www.RickSteves.com . For more than a month, you may not be able to get…
As I was installing a lightning bolt on this British lad's forehead, a la Harry Potter, his older brother watched carefully, and then signed up for a shooting star on…
Maggione. Opening night, in June. Built 9 centuries ago, between 1150 and 1170, the Castle of the Knights of Malta is impeccably restored, and is the first castle I have seen…
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