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A New Book

Today is the day my newest book, Lost in the Empire City, will be pub­lished. Peo­ple often ask me, “How does it feel to have a book published?”

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logic

Logic

Log­ic. While we may not think of the con­cept as hav­ing any­thing to do with fic­tion, it is not just a key aspect of nar­ra­tive, but par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant to readers.

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Titles

What does a good title have that makes it good? Lots of notions here. The truth is, as any author will tell you, a good title is hard to compose. 

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Lost in the Empire City

Immigrants

I sus­pect that there are count­less Amer­i­can fam­i­ly sto­ries akin to this one, the jour­ney to point of depar­ture, the voy­age itself, the arrival, and ear­ly years of tragedy and/or triumph.

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The Oldest Book on My Shelves

It’s not real­ly a sur­prise then, that on my shelves I have a few — very few — books from my child­hood. Read this week’s essay about those books.

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soup

Soup’s On

Last night didn’t start well. It began when my wife and I sat down to a new soup recipe. That soup took two hours to make, but only about thir­ty sec­onds to real­ize, “This is awful.”

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writing

I am working on a new book

“I am work­ing on a new book. It’s so new it has no title, and to be hon­est, I’m not sure what will hap­pen. Cer­tain­ly, no end­ing is in sight.”

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Great Expectations

With the return of school — has always meant the begin­ning of the year for me. Nev­er mind Jan­u­ary One. As far as I am con­cerned, this is the time when the year tru­ly starts.

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Wrapping Up the 2024 Summer Blog Series

This sum­mer, I invit­ed twelve suc­cess­ful writ­ers to com­ment on one of their recent books and to give some advice about writ­ing. For you teach­ers and librar­i­ans and new writ­ers there is enough wealth of insights and ideas to sug­gest a re-read­ing. And using.

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Pedro Martin

Summer Blog Series: Pedro Martin

I come from a huge fam­i­ly. Eleven, plus my grand­fa­ther. So when­ev­er we would get togeth­er to trade sto­ries, there were usu­al­ly twelve sides to every story.

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