Trust me. Just read this book.

If there were any justice in the universe, Karen Joy Fowler would be as rich and famous as people who write tedious pornography or tell stories about boy wizards. Her sales figures do not reach the bazillion mark, but you may know her from The Jane Austen Book Club,...

Workshopping a manuscript

Wyatt has been absorbing most of my mental energy lately, which is why nobody has heard much from me. I recently sent the first half of the manuscript (290 pages) to a fresh reader, and she alerted me to a serious imbalance in the way the story was developing. It took...