refusing to be helpless: how to start writing again after way too long

Late in 2020, finding myself with paid time off to kill, I decided to use it helping the Georgia Democrats in the…

a meditation on absence

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” So wrote a Miss Strickland in 1832. Surely this is one of the most widely recognized…

As with most worthwhile things, it took longer than expected. Like the rest of you, I usually have more going on than I would…

June 2016: Available in paperback and ebook editions! Read an excerpt!

Twenty-three years ago, my dreams came true. Atheneum accepted my stories–stories that I’d been writing in almost complete secrecy for a couple…