I had the privilege of spending some time with the mysterious, beautiful, and elusive Shannon McKenna this weekend, wandering around Little Italy in New York and then Chinatown for dinner, with her husband, who is kind, brilliant, and charming, and their two children, a new baby son and young daughter. …
Why is it so important? Because you have only a few seconds to get a reader’s attention in a bookstore or online. Writing a historical? Beware the overly lyrical opener. A lonely bird warbled in a glade, its piercing notes a cry of longing inchoate. The …
Rushed or crushed? The pressure’s on. Maybe you set a two-book-per-year goal, maybe your agent did, maybe agreeing to overlapping commitments with three different publishers seemed like a great idea at the time…but writing even one book a year can be tough enough with a zillion other claims …
