What a trip. Literally. I flew the Friendly Skies into Chi-Town on Thursday afternoon. O’Hare is a pretty nice airport, with trippy neon lights and synchronized music. BIG airport. Friday did a little looking around, brainstorming all the while with my publisher, Karen Syed, who graciously (not sure that’s exactly the right word) chauffeured me [...]
It’s not writer’s block. I’ve never really experienced it to any degree. What I do experience is the inability to write due to guilt. Good old-fashioned shame over wanting to write when I have other stuff going undone. Trivial, unimportant stuff like paying the bills. Making dinner for the family. Moving the laundry along. Taking [...]
Had she not been struck down by a drunk driver, Margaret Mitchell Marsh would have been 108 today. Born in 1900 in Atlanta (where else?) to a family well-defined by its number of soldiers and patriots, young Margaret (”Peggy”) grew up immersed in stories of the Civil War. Not surprising, her upbringing was not too [...]
Time’s fun when you’re having flies.
And boy, has time been one flying fun lately! Just returned from the beautiful coastal town of Santa Barbara, California, where fellow authors Dana Taylor and Jeff Sherratt joined me for the Santa Barbara Book & Authors Festival. The weather was the kind California is best known for, 75 degrees, [...]
Stop number one on Beacon Street’s Author Virtual Tour is the home of speculative fiction author Heather S. Ingemar. Following is our interview with this talented new name!You write “speculative fiction.” Describe what that means for readers new to the genre.Well, “speculative fiction” is a catch-all term for anything falling in the sci-fi, fantasy, or [...]
