Small Things
This time-lapse before revisions start in earnest, allows me to go back to the book. … the whole now informs the parts, so, I find myself making lots of small changes.
This time-lapse before revisions start in earnest, allows me to go back to the book. … the whole now informs the parts, so, I find myself making lots of small changes.
Although I have lived in Colorado for the past twenty-five years, I still think of myself as a New Yorker. It’s hardly a puzzle as to why it is the setting for a good number of my books.
It doesn’t matter how long I work on a book, the moment I decide I’m going to share it with someone, my wife, an editor, or a friend, my mindset changes.
Today, I am sending a new manuscript to my editor. I’ve been working on it for a year. I’ve shared it with no one.
This book is Fabrizio’s telling, and concerns, believe it or not, finding the secret of double-entry bookkeeping. If you think that’s a dull subject, think again!
“My 6th graders just finished The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Is there a sequel!? If not, we want one!”
I live in two places, one in the Colorado Rockies, the other in a Denver row house. Where do I write best?
It’s difficult to explain the enormous impact radio drama—kids’ radio drama—had on me. When a boy, I listened to it every day, starting at five in the afternoon. Nights too.
Why and how: As a writer, I use a dictionary of course. But I also make steady use of a Thesaurus.
Probably the question readers (young and old) most often ask me is “Where do you get your ideas?” I’ve been asked that question for more than fifty years. The answer is multifaceted: To begin with, I grew up in a house of books. I had great grandparents who were writers. One of my grandmothers was. My parents had