Sometimes a story emerges from deep inside your bones—from your deepest childhood memories, from the architecture that shaped your imagination. “In Floating Fields” is such a story, and I’m pleased to share that it’s now available in the online edition of StoryQuarterly. (It will be featured in the print edition later this year.) It’s a story set in part in my … Read More
How to write a novel without an outline
A lot of people come to me for help in structuring their novels. Which makes sense because, generally speaking, they either: Or I developed my own approach to story structure out of frustration, honestly. Because I had done both of these things. In my early days as a developmental editor, I’d also attempted to apply what I’d learned about story … Read More
This post is about you
Some books change the world in small ways. Some books change them in big ones. This week, I’m celebrating the launch of a book I think may just do the latter—How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment by my client Scott Snibbe. In addition to being a writer, Scott is a longtime student of Tibetan Buddhism … Read More
The books I read in 2023, and how much they meant to me
Everything is coming late for me this year, for various reasons. But I wanted to share with you the books I read in 2023, and how much they meant to me. I’ve had a goal of reading 52 books a year for a while now, and in 2023, I came closer to that goal than I ever have before: 46. … Read More
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