Oh, books and spreadsheets, how do I love thee! I’ve been keeping data on which books I’ve read for the past five years, since early 2010, which is awesome for those times when I want to figure out, for instance, the percentage of female authors I read or how many fantasy novels I’ve scarfed down. … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Chrissy Kolaya. Who are you? I’m a poet and fiction writer, parent, and partner. I teach writing at a small university in rural Minnesota. My books are Any Anxious Body, a book of poems published by the fabulous Broadstone Books in spring 2014 and a … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with Jenny Vinyl. Who are you? I’m a writer of short essays as well as history and memoirs about my family, though I’ve always enjoyed writing in many forms — fiction, creative non-fiction, and sometimes poetry, too. What are three beloved books you first read before the … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with mystery author Kassandra Lamb. I’ve had the pleasure of beta-reading Kassandra’s Kate Huntington mystery series, and have especially enjoyed the long-term romance between the main couple in the series. Who are you? I am a retired psychotherapist/college professor turned mystery writer. Some of my favorite things … [Read more…]
I’ve long planned my reading–kept a TBR list, led two book clubs, read books in thematic clusters–and I thought other readers did, too. But one of the things that has surprised me about the Writers Who Read series is how many of the writers interviewed, most of them big readers, don’t consciously plan their reading. I think spontaneous, … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with poet Susan Rich. Who are you? I am a word addict. I’m into confetti and aquamarine; I love double-barreled words like “doorknob” and “backstabber,” “watermelon” and “windowpane” where I can grab two images for the price of one. Mostly, I answer to “poet” with a new book, CLOUD … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with YA author Amy Kathleen Ryan. Who are you? I am Amy Kathleen Ryan, author of the young adult Sky Chasers series, which has been published in over a dozen languages, and also the contemporary YA novels Vibes and Zen and Xander Undone. What are three beloved … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with Elizabeth Enslin. Who are you? Elizabeth Enslin, author of While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal, recently released from Seal Press. I was once an academic anthropologist but now write literary nonfiction and raise yaks, pigs, geese and chickens on … [Read more…]
This month I’ve been tagged by a fellow author in a blog hop where I answer questions about my writing process and then tag three more writers. I was tagged by the lovely romance writer Rebecca Brooks, who wrote about her writing process here. Here’s a bit more about Rebecca: Rebecca Brooks lives in New York … [Read more…]
I recently did that Facebook book nerd meme that is making the rounds, the one where you’re supposed to list ten books that have stayed with you. The question, as I copied it, instructed me to not think too hard about this question, so of course I then proceeded to think twice as long as most other people … [Read more…]