1. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown With grace and elegance, a story brought back over a thousand years. 2....

The ARCs (advance review copies) of my novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire , are out, from Unbridled Books . (Want one? Contact Unb...

By all means, support your local bookstore -- and why not also buy direct from the poet? Check out poet and visual artist Christine Boyka Kl...

An open letter from Roy Blount, Jr., the President of the Author's Guild: I've been talking to booksellers lately who report that ti...

Over at the Big Picture , a blog well worth reading.

One of the both necessary and richest pleasures in writing a novel (no, it's not all torture!) is reading other novels. Today's gue...

Wacky! But he could be right.

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas. This deeply researched and elegantly written expose of the luxury business has nothing--...

Full info on the February 2009 conference here and my "Techniques of Fiction" workshop here .

My amigo Francisco Aragón , Washington DC-based poet and editor, has been such an inspiration to me. It was his Momotombo Press 's beaut...