by Mary | Jan 22, 2011 | What I'm working on now.
Recently, a reader wrote, “I envy you taking piano lessons… Alas! At 68, it is too late!” Nonsense. At 60, I am as cognitively challenged as most geezers. I can’t multitask. I need a nap in the afternoon. I don’t have senior moments; I...
by Mary | Dec 28, 2010 | What I'm working on now.
I always seem to do two books in each genre. After resisting the pattern for months, I have bowed to the inevitable. DOC, which will be out in May, focuses on one half of the West’s most famous friendship, telling the story of Doc Holliday’s short and...
by Mary | Dec 13, 2010 | What I'm working on now.
I have a question about hedging bets. Random House and a dozen or more friends have done a lot of editing and fact-checking for DOC, but I don’t think any of us actually plays the horses. So I’m not 100% certain that I got this right: “We hedged our...
by Mary | Oct 18, 2010 | What I'm working on now.
… writing a blog is like walking on a tightrope above a vat of boiling narcissism. Thanks to all of you who’ve signed up to see if the entertainment value outweighs the wretched self-promotion that authors are expected to do these days! Hoping not to...
