by Debra Darvick | Oct 29, 2008 | Writing Life
Of all the slings and arrows we writers must bear, the worst is pitching a story to an agent or an editor, being rejected and then seeing the very story on the newsstand or on a bookshelf at Border’s. Many times it’s just coincidence. Sometimes, though, the...
by Debra Darvick | Oct 13, 2008 | Writing Life
We had a funeral to attend a fortnight ago. In New York. Airplane — $875 per ticket. Driving — $170 round trip. I brought five books and got to three. The political thriller thrilled. The memoir inspired. And the contemporary women’s novel entertained...
by Debra Darvick | Oct 6, 2008 | Bookshelf
Every time I go to the library, I think about Burgess Meredith. Readers of a certain age will remember the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. The childhood fantasy of being locked in a library for the weekend has never left me. Neither has the post-apocalypse...
