During a recent martial arts class, Rob asked his students whether they saw the world as a dangerous place with moments of wonder, or a wondrous place with moments of danger. Definitely a wondrous place, I thought. Then I considered my writing and realized that to move the action forward in my novel, I needContinue reading “Taking Wonder with a twist of Danger”
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Revisiting first novels
After a novel has had tremendous success, readers often seek out the author’s first books, which for whatever reason, escaped notice when originally released. More than a decade before The Art of Racing in the Rain became a New York Times Bestseller, Garth Stein published Raven Stole the Moon. The jacket summary intrigued me: aContinue reading “Revisiting first novels”
Kari Neumeyer 