August 15, 2010
I wrote earlier about my participation in a terrific new short story collection called Death’s Excellent Vacation, edited by the amazing Toni L. P. Kelner and Charlaine Harris. Great news: Death’s Excellent Vacation is debuting at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction. This is extraordinary for a short story collection; [...]
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August 9, 2010
One of the surprisingly difficult challenges in fiction writing is finding great, memorable, descriptive names for your characters. Today at Nameberry.com, the premiere baby names site, I blog about my process for naming characters, with specific examples of how I used Nameberry (or the bestselling books by its creators, Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran, [...]
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