Dear writers, I've been thinking lately about the doubts that start rattling around in my head whenever I sit down to write. My writing group meets twice a week for two hours at a time, and I declared to them recently that I hate writing. "It feels bad, I don't know how to do it, and I don't have anything worthwhile to say. I'm a total fraud and imposter, and where do I get off telling people what to do with their books? I should just pack up and go home, or stay in my lane and stick to...

Dear writers, I'm leading a three-week writing workshop at Subterranean Books in May. Want to join me? It's a hybrid creative writing/productivity class designed to arouse you from your torpor. If you want to get back into writing regularly, come write with me. I'll teach you productivity hacks and guide you through timed writings that get your wheels turning again. Open to writers of all genres and experience levels. All you need is a notebook, a pen, and a hankering to write. Creating a...

Happy New Year, storytellers and book lovers. May 2024 bring you perfect health and brilliant physicians. Renewal. Inspiration. Courage. Immunity from shame. My heartfelt thanks go to all of you who followed me and my husband through my battle with cancer over the last two years and my liver transplant in April. My scans are clear, my labs are perfect. Your messages brought light and strength to me and my husband, and it looks like we made it. Thank you for sending your love so steadily....