I always said that if anyone ever cared to ask, I would be honest about not growing up wanting to be a writer. Because it’s true; I dabbled here and there, but it wasn’t until I was almost thirty years old that I got serious about writing. I’d been a lifelong reader, and I’d built […]
From a rather young age—beginning the moment I discovered the magic of reading in elementary school—I found myself enchanted by stories, especially fiction, but also autobiographies. I’d describe myself as a passionate lifelong reader. Yet, the turn to writing arose from two serendipitous encounters with a Nigerian-British writer (Dilibe Onyeama) and, more decisively, the mesmeric […]
I am a mystery writer about 40-percent of the time and a book industry blogger 60-percent. My day job is long gone but I am busier now than ever. Early on, I enjoyed reading Hemingway who wrote about life’s experiences and Christie who put together detective novels that were great reads. Then in college, I […]
I write to commune with the ghosts buried inside my head. They were always there, waking me up at all hours with nightmares, lurking in my favorite books, luring me into spooky old houses. An over-active imagination can be a wonderfully maddening thing. Growing up, I slept in my closet for a year for fear […]
My love of writing developed from a deep-rooted love of language. From an early age, I was drawn to words and their meanings. I cannot count the times I would pause while reading a book to savor the sound of a new word in my mouth. Determining definition through context clues brought equally profound joy. […]
I have always been writing, as far back as I can remember. When I was a young boy I wrote stories and poetry for my parents and my grandparents, even a bit of detective fiction, all handwritten into old notebooks. As a teenager I started translating and writing short stories, and at the age of […]
I didn’t set out to become a writer. I went into publishing because I loved to read and didn’t have any better ideas. I had a weakness for the kind of jokes that make you cringe and guffaw at the same time, my boss kept telling me to write them down, and the collection turned […]
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