Why do I write? Well for the money of course! When I received my first advance, I dumped the entire $72.50 on my bed and just rolled around in it, while blasting Coolio’s Money. However, I think, before I was corrupted by wealth, my drive to write came from a much more organic place. I […]
I began writing to combat loneliness. This might seem strange because writing itself is a lonely affair. But after I left my job of twelve years and moved out of state to stay home to raise my young children, I had to start over: new town, new friends, new purpose. Bringing life to characters who […]
Words have power. I feel that power whenever I sit down to put my thoughts into an understandable form. I love language and the ability of some to string words together in a way that thrills your heart while encouraging people to think, to question, to dream. I believe in the power of story—whether those […]
Writing is a place I go. The journey starts with a deep breath that pushes out all other places, places of rush and to-do lists and expectations of others. My writing-place then starts to come alive. I fly over the forests of my creation and take in the world. It’s always the same path, the […]
The North American premiere of my play The War of the Roses, based solely on the original novel, has opened at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington to spectacular reviews. It avoids using any of the brilliant changes concocted by the screenwriters and director that made the movie an enduring hit that plays somewhere in […]
Nothing excites me as much as writing. When I was a child, I’d lie on my bed and dream up poems relevant to what was going on in my life at the time. Sometimes my writing was happy, and other times, it was incredibly sad. When my dog died, the poetry echoed the despair I felt, […]
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