Category: Fiction Writing
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Upcoming Classes
Litro MasterclassWriting Across Cultures: Identity, Voice and International Readers On Saturday, September 19, I’m teaching a live Litro masterclass on writing identity, culture, place and belonging for readers beyond your immediate context — without sanding down what makes the work specific. The session includes guided drafting, practical examples and a reusable context-cues method. Saturday, September…
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Anonymous Bells — How We Got Our Agents
Fellow writer Colleen Alles and I started a video blog on YouTube this week, which I’ll occasionally post about here. You can always subscribe on YouTube @anoynmousbells1816. Our first video was called “How We Got Our Agents”—a popular topic in the writing community. I share this in the video, but my process took over 10…
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Interview with Teri M. Brown
Atmosphere Press author Teri M. Brown recently interviewed me for her podcast Online for Authors. I’ve never done a podcast before, but Teri is a natural interviewer. I’ve worked with her on all three of her books, most recently The Daughters of Green Mountain Gap. It’s always a pleasure to chat with her. You can…
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Writing “First Snow”
I’m not much of a poet, but sometimes I feel so moved to write that only poetry will do. My poem “The First Snow,” published in The Orchards Poetry Journal this winter, was written for my daughter’s first preschool teacher, DeeDee Leming. When my daughter was born, I struggled to find the support and connection…