Q&A and Giveaway with Heather Webb, author of Rodin’s Lover

“Camille dropped to her knees in the mud. Her skirts absorbed last night’s rain and the scent of sodden earth. She plunged a trowel, stolen from her neighbor’s garden, into the red clay and dug furiously, stopping only to slop hunks of art into a wooden trough. She needed one more load to mold the …

#AmReading #AmListening on these cold, cold days.

With frost overtaking the window pane and the thermometer reading single digits, this is a good time to curl up with a book. I’ve mentioned before how I love reading with my kids. Partly because it draws them in, and there’s comfort, for example, at the end of a day when my seventh-grade son leans against my shoulder, caught up in the pages …

Writers at the Table II: the Reading

It all began with a podium and a microphone (drawing to the right courtesy of my daughter)–an empty space charged with nothing less than excitement, nerves, and tiny prayers. The same kind of energy from which each new story begins if you’re a writer. This time, though, the stories were already written and anthologized and ready to be shared. …