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How to Make the Most of Your Writing Retreat

Every year, when my husband asks what I want for my birthday, my answer is always the same: “To run away from home.” This year, he

I am no hoarder. Not yet. But cloth shopping bags are luring me down that dark path. As a child, I helped my mother ferry groceries home

We writers quake in our slippers at the thought of actually having to get dressed and emerge from behind our laptop shields. Whether we're

Last month, I had the pleasure of appearing on a panel at the West Hollywood Book Fair with writers T. Greenwood, whose latest novel is the

There are plenty of reasons to hate the movie We're the Millers, starting with Jennifer Aniston's striptease in a bra and panties set that

While most authors fantasize about being on TV whenever we're not dreaming that someday we'll see royalties equal to even half of those

It's easy to forget that we even have imaginations once we're adults. Who has time to feel creative, when there's a job to go to,

I just saw my new novel in a bookstore for the first time and nearly cried. Oh, all right, I'll come clean: I did cry. It

“Are we old yet?” my husband asked the other night when neither of us could remember the name of a man we'd met recently. “Are we old yet?” I asked