Creativity and books: What three books changed your life? This new year I begin a series of articles on the link between books and creativity, similar to my ongoing posts on the relationship creatives have with Music and their Muses, favorite songs and albums that help fire creative engines. Here’s a link to the last…
Look out for Sugarbeat’s Books new Top 10 Romance Novels of 2012 . . . Coming Soon! Today, it’s a special treat to introduce to A Writer’s Life Blog, my good friend Barb Drozdowich, aka Sugarbeat. Her thoughts on the books she reads can be found at Sugarbeat’s Books. In her spare time, Barb helps steer…
When I read a story or a novel and I enter its created world completely — with no outer distractions, and this mobile life we’re all living in tends to distract me even more — I cannot help but wonder at how the author pulled off the greatest trick. A terrific novel is…
The young man has never been afraid of hats before. In fact, he’s recently found himself admiring them. The hats on the heads of the men in this town have actually seemed to him quite marvelous. So it is strange that he should now be so frightened–so incredibly frightened–of this one. — from Ben Loory’s The…
Okay, I resisted going to the new Woody Allen movie. A lot of you did the same. Every weekend I need to be convinced to go to the movies. This wooing has to be so much better at grabbing people away from busy lives, exquisite home theaters with state of the art sound and vision, or…