by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech
Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
by Danielle Dubow | Feb 10, 2015
Acclaimed author Mary Doria Russell settles into successful routine in her Lyndhurst home office By Joanna Connors, Cleveland Plain Dealer Mary Doria Russell wrote her first novel, “The Sparrow,” in the spare bedroom of her house in South Euclid. Make that...
by Etsuko Dunham | Dec 10, 2014
Best of the Blog On writing 25 Things Male Writers Don’t Do Before a Book Event Writer Tech: Pay yourself first. It’s never easy. Personal blogs Days of Awe Requiem for an English Teacher: Richard James Cima, 1932-2012 When nothing else matters Doc Holliday Memorial —...
by Mary | Oct 26, 2013 | EPITAPH, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
It’s official: Epitaph will be out in the spring of 2015. If you just groaned about having to wait so long, thank you. Personally? I’m not distressed. The manuscript was due next month and since there’s a long process between submission and...
by Mary | Aug 26, 2016 | THE SPARROW
By now you’ve probably heard that astronomers have announced the existence of “Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri.” As in any scientific discovery, there are a lot of caveats and careful hedging of the announcement, but this appears...
by Mary | May 27, 2015 | Natural History of a Novel, THE PRICE, What I'm working on now.
When young writers ask my advice, I always tell them, “Marry an engineer. They’re not only funny, creative, rational people, they get benefits at work and there’s been been a good job market for them since the Renaissance.” I’m not...
