Never mind the intense debates about immigration to the USA, unless you are a decedent of North America’s indigenous peoples, we are ALL immigrants or descendants of immigrants.
If one is a writer one of the things you get used to is rejection. It’s never pleasant but can be memorable. And sometimes, in retrospect, even funny.
But what of those writers who write many different kinds of books? How do readers respond?
Photography has long fascinated me. … I set up a darkroom in the basement of my house and worked with film. … At the time I was immersed in all of this I wrote three books, which, I believe, were greatly influenced by my engagement with images.
This morning, in Denver, it was minus eight degrees. Surely, winter. I reminded myself, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”.
It’s a new year so here’s an old story about the town where I live in Colorado and one of my books which is set there.
A 19th-century fact, written down by my grandmother in 1939, edited by my twin sister in 1978, written into my fiction in 2024. My way of organizing the past into a contemporary fictional narrative.
Sometimes, living in a forest as I do, I get a glimpse of nature in all its living beauty, its calming beauty.
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here when I speak of the pleasures of reading. But perhaps not enough is said about the pleasure of re-reading.
Among Friends is “a history of an industry transformed by consolidation and shifting tastes.” I have been part of that industry since 1968, when my first book, Things That Sometimes Happen, was accepted for publication.