Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens
Oct.14.2009
The jig is up. There is no secret handshake. No magic formula. No deus ex machina for writers.
Aghast?
I was. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us there is no Santa Claus. Yeesh.
Leaving the big red guy out of it for a moment, I have to admit, when I started out writing, I was certain...
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Oct.13.2009
It kicks off the subject of my third novel. But I avoided Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood for a long time. So many Dickens novels, so little time, and few people volunteer it as the Dickens “you have to read.” Since Dickens died in the middle of writing it, it falls into the category...
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Sep.30.2009
Another guest post! Here I talk about Charles Dickens's serialized writing and why that remains an exciting topic. Please get to know "Book Chatter and other stuff" while your'e there. Also, note that if you comment on the post as Ti instructs and you'll be entered to win a copy of the...
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Sep.30.2009
Since we're nearing the release of the paperback for The Last Dickens in the U.S., I'll have some guest posts around the web on various blogs who were kind enough to invite me to intrude.
I hope this also gives you the opportunity to discover book-related blogs you might not have known about yet...
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Sep.29.2009
Did you know Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens had at least one meeting?
It was during Dickens's first visit to the United States, in 1842. Dickens was in Philadelphia where Poe was at the time. Poe, like many writers and other admirers, called on the visiting author at his hotel, which was named...
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Aug.17.2009
In Sunday's New York Times, commentator Verlyn Klinkenborg raises the essential question every avid reader faces, for some inexplicable reason, the moment school ends and blockbusters fill the multiplexes: what to read. He answers it in characteristic Klinkenborg fashion—thoughtfully, without sure...
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Mar.13.2009
What does it mean to finish a book? Finite. Das Ende. Basta. Finish.
I've been thinking about that a lot. I just finished a major round of revisions on my WIP, and tomorrow, I finish my 30s. Endings have been up front and personal this week. I've decided, after much contemplation and sleepless...
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