how to start a novel: looking at the first pages after the end

When you finish your novel, after mapping, plotting, typing, and deleting hundreds of sentences, paragraphs, and pages, you finally reach…

querying

que·ry /ˈkwirē/ verb gerund or present participle: querying Querying is hard. You have to boil all your hopes and dreams, huge ideas,…

I recently finished a novel I’d been working on daily (for years), and I’m in-between freelance projects, so my usual…

Last week I sent out 5 queries and 1 submission for a novel, The History of Things, which I’ve worked…

In 1871 nineteen black businessmen in Columbia met to create a suitable burial ground for the African-American community. They formed…

July 4, 1876 July 4th, 1876 was the centennial celebration of the country’s independence, and in the small town of Hamburg,…

Do you know what happened in Orangeburg, SC? It was host to one of the most violent episodes of the…

The preparation for a Fresco takes years before any paint hits the wall. One major component in this lengthy preparation…

“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in…