The Un-Making Of Madness

Posted on Jul 23, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments Here’s the latest installment in my sporadically produced interactions with writers whose works I admire. I present here, David Fitzpatrick’s dazzling new work. In his just released first novel, Wolf-Boy, Running Wild Press, July 2024, David Fitzpatrick exemplifies the oft quoted writer’s directive to “write what you know.” While that’s an ambiguous task that can...
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A Silver Reindeer and Sleigh

Posted on Jul 11, 2021 in Blog | 0 comments My husband is from the Salzkammergut region of Austria. Lakes and what they consider low, but very old mountains. His uncle, Richard Leutner, was born, raised, and lived in the small, historic village (okay let’s be honest Austria is nothing but small historic villages) of Henndorf where he and my husband’s aunt Berta, nee Laimer, lived in a 400 year old house (below). To give a...
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The One Who Got Away

Posted on Jun 2, 2017 in Blog | 2 comments To be honest I cannot remember his name or how I met him. So let’s call him Carl. I do know I was living in New York at the time. We talked about fishing up near Hunter Mountain in the Catskills. This area had bittersweet memories for me, of a relationship that had only recently gone sour, so when Carl said he was going trout fishing  there the next weekend and asked me along I said...
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Sept 11th.

Posted on Sep 10, 2016 in Blog | 1 comment On that day in 2001, I was at home in Virginia when the phone rang and a friend told me to turn on the TV. The first plane had hit the North Tower. Smoke billowed out of the gash from the 92nd. to the 98th. floors. My daughter, the artist, 24 years old at the time, was in her Chelsea studio on west 23rd. Street. My husband was in midtown preparing for a morning meeting. I called my daughter...
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Southern Living with True Grit

Posted on Jul 2, 2012 in Blog | 15 comments I’ve been asked to write something on the subject of “Southern Living” for what’s been titled The She Writes Southern Writers 4th of July Countdown Blog Tour. Phew, that’s a southern fried mouthful. But hey, here in the south we’re used to chewing on some real gritty morsels. And speaking of grits, let’s consider the southern love affair with that oh-so-misunderstood food group, the...
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A Confederacy of Authors

Posted on Jun 18, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments An article that recently appeared on HuffPo Sticks & Stones: The Changing Politics of the Self-Publishing Stigma by Terri Giuliano makes the case that a) self publishing (referred to by us Indie authors as Indie Pubbing) is growing fast, b) some authors published by traditional houses resent this, c) sales for ebooks are climbing, d) sales of paperback books are declining, and e) a bunch of...
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