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January 21, 2019
What’s It Take To Be A Novelist?
Pen-L Publishing, the house that has published two of my novels (Fling! and Freefall: A Divine Comedy), has also contracted with me to write another that features Tillie Bloom, Freefall’s main character. This new work’s title is Tillie: Portraits of a Canadian Girl in Training, and I’ve been working on it for the past few months when […]
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January 14, 2019
Where do characters come from?
During a recent interview, I was asked how I start a novel and create characters. Unfortunately, I couldn’t give this person an answer that was universal. Each book puts different demands on me and has its own particular origins. So I’ll focus here on my most recently released work, Freefall: A Divine Comedy. This novel called […]
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January 7, 2019
Fairy tales rock!
From the time I learned how to read, fairy tales, the world of mythos, nourished me and fed my curiosity about life and the world. My parents had purchased a set of the Books of Knowledge, wonderful, fat red volumes that I browsed whenever I had the chance. At the center of each book was a […]
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December 31, 2018
What Goes into Creating a Novel?
Tomorrow, January 1, 2019, Pen-L Publishing will release my third novel, Freefall: A Divine Comedy, and I’m as excited about its appearance as I was when they published my “debut” novel Fling! in 2015. My family and friends have all commented on how prolific I am, assuming that I wrote these books in the past five […]
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December 17, 2018
Why Do You Read Novels?
As a fiction writer, I often ask myself why people read novels and how can I convince them to read mine? That question occurred to me again recently when I finished a novel that had me questioning why I read fiction. The book was engaging enough. The writer was competent and had created characters that seemed […]
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December 9, 2018
Dream Thieves
For many years I’ve been recording my dreams each morning and trying to listen to the messages they bring me from the depths. I subscribe to Jung’s view that dreams are messengers from the unconscious, both personal and collective. To ignore them is like refusing to open and read letters from beloved friends that come […]
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December 3, 2018
What Does it Mean To Be Educated?
A college level teacher of rhetoric, who currently teaches memoir and creative writing at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Institute of Lifelong Learning, I, naturally, was drawn to Tara Westover’s memoir Educated, recommended to me by one of my Fromm students. Why do I say naturally? Because, like Westover, I had to make my […]
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November 26, 2018
Venice’s Magic and its Relation to Magical Realism
I visited Venice for the first time in 1994, and it was love at first sight. It reinforced my notion that our ego consciousness is surrounded by the waters of the unconscious, and I had found a city that demonstrated this perspective. Daily life goes on while the city’s structural foundations are rooted deep in […]
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November 19, 2018
Do Female Relationships Hold Up Over Time?
My latest novel, Freefall: A Divine Comedy, explores, among many things, female relationships and how they evolve over the years. As someone who has valued my friendships with females and males, it was interesting to explore how people can relate if they either haven’t seen each other for a long period or have connected only infrequently, as […]
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The Enigma of Female Relationships
My latest novel, Freefall: A DivineComedy, explores, among many things, female relationships and how they evolve over the years. As someone who has valued my friendships with females and males, it was interesting to explore how people can relate if they either haven’t seen each other for a long period or have connected only infrequently, as […]
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