I learned early in my writing career that just because a writer was brilliant--well reviewed, published, and capable on the page--that didn...

I've been thinking a lot this week about the ways we tell stories. Some writers come from a background of oral storytelling, as in gathe...

A reader sent me a poignant email a few months ago. She's writing a memoir and happened to show segments to her family--for all the best...

Revision is the final stage of the book journey, after the gathering of material and the forming of a rough draft, after the structuring tha...

In real life, people operate under unspoken agreements that try to keep the status quo--whether that status quo is calm or the opposite. I...

I've just sent the revision of my third novel to my agent, and I'm at a loss. I sit, watching the snow fall outside my office window...

If I had a way to capture the self-talk inside most writers' brains, as they sit down to do their writing practice, here's what I mi...

What's the difference between a writer who gets a book finished and a writer who never does? A writing practice. Believe it--there's...

In pre-Covid times, I regularly visited friends in Boston to hear the legendary Boston Cecelia chorus perform each holiday season. At one pe...

Katherine Quie's memoir, Raising Will, Surviving the Brilliance and Blues of ADHD, received three golds in the Independent Book Publish...