Sales of my first novel Blue Rubber Pool have picked up I assume due to recent publicity about my second novel The Bird in Your ….
Category: Writing
It’s Tuesday morning and I’m supposed to be making some revisions to a manuscript under contract with a small publisher that doesn’t mind getting neck ….
The manuscript I’m working on, under contract for 2026, is due to the publisher in June. It’s consumed years of my life off and on. ….
The London-based Sylvia Plath Society, a global community of scholars, artists, students, and fans who love or want to know more about the poet Sylvia ….
WHOO HOO! BREAKING NEWS. Just signed a publishing contract for my fourth novel. It’ll come out in 2026. (My third comes before then.)WHAT’S THIS MEAN ….
Birdwatching on Edisto was the working title of my second novel but people either thought is was non-fiction (a field guide) or were confused about ….
“FULL OF EYES” BRINGS A LONG BURIED TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT Author Paul Barra goes where others wouldn’t—into the true story of a Charleston, South ….
I found this photo of my younger self sailing across a frozen lake near Rockford, Illinois, where I spent my high school years. It reminded ….
Finding a critique group has not been easy from my roost in Union County. At first, I sat in during a few “Writers night Out” ….
—One part story-telling. One part global nutrition advocacy. For several weeks I’ve been racing the weather at Pineapple Hill, my “beach house in a cow ….
He was a doctor and poet both. His poems were “skinny” because he penned them on his prescription pad.
I HAD A DREAM THAT JEFFREY EPSTEIN WAS HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER AND HE WAS MAKING ME READ THE GREAT GATSBY AND I WAS LIVING ….