The Quivering Pen

Fresh Ink  is a monthly tally of new and forthcoming books — mainly advance review copies (aka “uncorrected proofs” and “galleys”) —I’ve re...

Simply put, the best sentence(s)* I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without** commentary. If you met him, you wou...

Congratulations to Teresa Sweeney , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Fobbit by David Abrams (That’s-a me!). This week, I’m ...

I don’t remember this day at all. It was my 10th birthday, a decade of life, so you’d think even my young brain would have marked it as ...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. At the bottom of everythin...

Congratulations to Jane Rainey , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: The Incredible Journey of Plants by Stefano Mancuso. As I...

Ten years ago this month, I found myself closing in on the end of the first draft of my first published novel. [cue montage of furrowed ...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. In war, as in farming, top...

Congratulations to Columbus Moore , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: The Memory Eaters by Elizabeth Kadetsky. This week’s c...

Congratulations to Mike Cooper , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him by Tracy Borman. This...

The First Time My Life Imitated My Art In 1889, Oscar Wilde claimed in an essay, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”...