Hello!
Welcome to my website
My website is under construction. I am adding more to it regularly. Put on your hard hat and look around.
While writing my own novels,
I also interview other children's book creators for the SCBWI Michigan blog, The Mitten.
My Writing Groups
The world's greatest critique group*
With published authors, storytellers, teachers and writers of all stripes, this collection of creators is invaluable.
*It's our opinion, and we're sticking to it.
At one of our annual writing retreats.
Sometimes we gather at one of our houses.
Here we are celebrating Debbie Diesen's Pout Pout Fish plushes.
Often we meet online to critique our works and do parallel writing.
More coming...
The 2015 L.A. Conference crit group
While attending a national writer's conference in Los Angeles in 2015, chance united me with these four writers.
We met regularly for years.
Naz Kutub was the driving force for a critique group in the first place. He presented many novels in progress over the years, has since published two with Bloomsbury, and is a writing coach and presenter. See his work at https://nazkutub.com/
Tiffany Brown has grown her crochet into a massive empire.
Plus, she writes.
See her beautiful work and books here:
Eric Poole is as funny and brilliant in real life as he is on the page.
See his work at https://www.ericpoole.net/
Kathryn Huber worked in inner city L. A. with tough kids for many years. She's an excellent teacher and writer, and she took the photo of me at the top of this page, on her boat.
teresa Crumpton, writing coach and mentor
A local writing conference and a short-lived online critique group led me to work with Editor Teresa Crumpton of Author Spark.
She's been amazing at punching up my writing.
See what she offers at https://authorspark.org/
My Old Stuff
Because even though some of it is embarrassing, that's how one grows.
Parody newspapers, literary magazines, local magazines and newspapers and much more.
Coming soon, after I dig it up.
me and my writing
me and my writing
Good to have these all together in one place, for someone's amusement.