Category: building stories

  • Resale Re-inscription (dedicatoria)

    At the used bookstore the other day, waiting for the staff to pick over my only moderately delectable sack of we-don’t-want-them-anymore tomes, I wandered through the aisles reading novel blurbs and tidbits and first pages, sampling sections I often skip–browsing, like a deer in a tulip bed. In one of those sections, I pulled off […]

  • In the spirit of detours and mystery fiction and taking on a new voice….

    I’ve written a novel that includes segments of mystery novels by one J. Wisdome, pseudonymous author of the Sgt. String series. Now I’m writing another novel, this one made up of more of J. Wisdome’s stories (those that didn’t quite make it into the first book, mainly because I hadn’t written them yet). Or maybe […]

  • Puzzling

    I do two or three jigsaw puzzles a year: one in January when we go to the coast for a weekend with my parents and my brother and his family, and another one (maybe two) over winter break or during the summer. This break, I’ve been putting together a 1000-piece puzzle of the Mona Lisa. […]