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Jun.02.2011
I'm launching my new Podcast called The Man of Twists and Turns today. It'll include interviews with writers and discussions of my own creative...
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Jun.03.2011
When Peter Cook admitted to Dudley Moore that he was “turned on by dead Popes,” it was a satire on those among us who’re so bored by their lives as...
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Jun.15.2011
I've a guest post on the UK book blog Bookgeeks today, about how I "wrote the music" for my new Mozart novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA. Here's how...
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Jun.16.2011
The New York Times ran a travel article last weekend about things to do in Jerusalem during the Jewish Sabbath when most things are shut. The article...
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Jun.23.2011
I’ve seen two things in the last week that allowed me to compare something of the way crime writers used to appear in public and their present...
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Jul.07.2011
I dislike the law and I have little interest in ethics. So here’s a post about the ethics and legality of using real characters in fiction, as I do...
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Jul.14.2011
Editor’s note: The Man of Twists and Turns has obtained the text of a major exclusive which was set to appear in The News of the World in London this...
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Jul.21.2011
I’ve tried to do everything the characters in my books do. I’ve roamed the alleys of Bethlehem’s refugee camps. I’ve had clandestine meetings with...
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Aug.01.2011
My latest podcast is the first of a three-part series about How to Write a Book. This episode covers research for your book, whether it's nonfiction...
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Aug.04.2011
When I worked as a journalist at a major US magazine, it was clear that readers didn’t respond to hard news. They wanted features. Not fluffy...
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Feb.28.2010
The past few days have been insane at best. As the date of release of Housekeeping for the Soul is getting closer, I'm working around the clock to...
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Jun.28.2010
The past few days it has been late spring cleaning time at the Carrington-Smiths. With two very busy months behind, one kid ready to travel and two...
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Mar.28.2009
What does poetry do for us? What sort of perspective does it bring to our everyday lives? I invite your answers to these open-ended questions. The...
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May.14.2009
Tomorrow!  Tomorrow!  Tomorrow! That's right... tomorrow morning, Angels & Demons, the movie comes out. But even better: Roaring Forties Press...
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Dec.16.2009
I've always enjoyed the Frugal Traveler blog in the NYT, but today I loved it even more! This morning Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler, writes about...
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Feb.05.2009
     Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers. There...
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Mar.28.2009
On our layover between mapping the Western edge of The Neutral Zone and establishing a new Pizza Hut franchise on Yargon 4, I have been augmenting my...
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Apr.05.2009
Live internet radio interview and reading this afternoon, on The Jane Crown show, at 5 p.m. Eastern time. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-...
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Apr.16.2009
I'm thrilled to say that The Missouri Review is featuring my poem, The Magician, as Poem of the Week on their web-site, here: http://www....
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.