always with a book

July 14, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: What should your final edit look like? Plus Kristy Woodson Harvey talks about being an interior decorator if she wasn’t a writer (I can relate!), summer reads, a podcast, manuscript consultations, conferences, and poetic form
July 5, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: Will Anyone Care? Exploring Writer’s Doubt–Plus, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre lands–about grief, the supernatural, English countryside–and it’s going to be a movie, plus writing from photographs, the podcast matchmaker, revamping your writing group, more
June 23, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Can we mother differently and still be good mothers? What about women’s intuition, ‘just knowing,’ envy and regrets? Ashley Audrain talks about that and more in The Whispers; plus visual poetry, micro CNF, more
June 6, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Christy Warren talks about writing in coffee shops–and being displaced–also PTSD, letting others see us in moments of tenderness; plus a revision workshop, another on obsessions, a big book of summer, recently published poetry, more
May 26, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS: How to ask for feedback, Mental Health Awareness Month + debut novelist Mirinae Lee talks about 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, the book that recently riveted her, being a ‘slow writer,’ summer writing workshop offerings, more
May 3, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A lesson in advice from famous authors, writer’s block, Ann Putnam on her novel I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVER, writing and anthropology, Renee Gladman, Gabrielle Bates and visual narrative, stock images, more
April 17, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS: How (horseback) riding & writing are similar, according to Courtney Maum, author of THE YEAR OF THE HORSES, plus Beth Ann Mathews on her memoir, DEEP WATERS; books on motherhood; playlists, ruins, ending your story, where to submit, and more
April 3, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: It must be cathartic, writing this memoir, and other untruths about writing through trauma. Tuni Deignan on her lyrical memoir, UNDERWATER DAUGHTER, blending motherhood with writing, Mushroom School through Corporeal Writing, and more
March 21, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A spring re-set for writers, designing interiors of tiny homes–Julie Carrick Dalton on her new book, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, found family, going home; poetry prize judged by Maggie Smith, Corporeal Writing’s Tree Retreat, Courtney Maum, fragments & more
March 6, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Only your writing friends understand, finding your peeps, DISPATCHES FROM PUERTO NOWHERE, keeping track of your writing/creative time part 2, retreats & workshops