Moving Out & Moving On
After thirty years of living in our charming, leaning, creaky-floored Victorian, we’re moving on. Seattle has become too crowded for us, too busy and loud. It’s a city for younger people who don’t mind hauling groceries down the block because their parking spot vanished while they were at the store. We fell in love with […]
Writers and Self-Censorship
originally published March 7, 2016 in Women Writers, Women’s Books Writers should not be censored. I think everyone can agree on that. The whole idea of censorship conjures an image of stern political enforcers, combing through every line of poetry and prose with an eye to deleting or destroying anything that works against the current […]
Anne’s Maxims On The Writing Life
Here are some of the things I tell myself when I get the blues about my writing: You started this story because it was important for you to tell it. And you’re the only one who can tell it, so you better keep going. Think of your characters. If you give up now, […]
Art + Social Media = Penned
I’ve got a new book coming out in October, my debut novel, What Is Found, What Is Lost. I’ve been working social media like crazy in an effort to build interest and gain exposure. Most of this has been on Twitter, where I’m happy to report I’ve now got over 17,000 […]
When The Line Becomes A Circle – A Writer’s Story
In my new novel, What Is Found, What Is Lost, one of the main protagonists (there are four) reflects that “time was a loop, from now to then and back again.” Freddie, who changed her name at age twenty-one, and moved Heaven and earth to put a troubled past behind her, finds that the past […]