In a widely read essay entitled “MFA vs NYC,” bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the…
Category: The Talking Drum
I’ve hidden a few secrets in The Talking Drum that close family members and friends will probably be able to…
I met up with Santa Claus in the fiction section of R J Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut. This was…
One of the more appetizing parts of my research for The Talking Drum involved trying dishes I’d never heard of…
Ever since you were a child you knew you wanted to write a novel. But as the years went by,…
My perfect day wouldn’t be spent at my home. In fact, it wouldn’t be spent in my town, my state…
I have a love-hate relationship with scenes that establish setting of the story. I find these scenes the hardest to…
In The Talking Drum, one of my main characters, Omar Bassari, reminisces about the day in 1965 when his father,…
I never realized that my personality influenced my writing until I had an agent take a look at an early…
I am so happy to welcome Leah Garriott to the Deb ball this week! Although she earned degrees in math…