I don't recall learning to read, but I know I was still pretty young when I first started retreating to my room to read. I remember Robinson Crusoe, The Chronicles of Narnia, and A Wrinkle In Time, looking up words in my paperback dictionary, and basically sealing my fate as a book nerd for the rest of my life. It
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Welcome back, everyone. Hope you had a fabulous Easter. Being a book editor is such a strange job. It has enormous up sides: not requiring me to, say, buy a lot of expensive equipment or be out in extreme elements. I don't have to dig through anything too revolting. At least not physically. But still, it has its challenges. Chief
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It's a glorious spring day here. The birds are serenading the sun as it warms the grassy marsh beneath the berry vines with their new bright green growth, reaching up, creating new perches. I open the door and let in the warm breeze, the first of the new year. And a glorious discovery wafts in: here, the Pacific northwest, spring
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Today, Good Friday, I launch the new site I’ve spent over 7 years dreaming of, slaving over, refining and developing. This work in progress has forced me to pass up several previous target dates, but I've fought back perfectionism, false hopes, weaker stories, and I believe it's all been worthwhile. But the idea does still give me goose bumps. And
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Some offers are just hard to believe, aren't they? The day I came up with the idea for a "progressive publishing program," I didn't believe it either. But here's a confession: I’ve always been something of a skeptic. As a small(er) babbler, I remember seeing the commercial for the Tootsie Roll pop and I determined to prove them wrong.
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