Yesterday, I didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing. Today I do. This country has got to change its mind about guns. I grew up around guns and among hunters. I learned to shoot squirrels at [...]
In my ongoing effort to stay home and write more/travel less (and as part of my continual unhappiness with home education conferences), I’m trying out the online conference scene. This [...]
In nonfiction publishing, you typically sell your publisher a promise–an outline, a few sample chapters, and a deadline by which you plan to have the project finished. Writing under [...]
…by which I mean not so much that I’m writing (although that’s mostly what I do, when I’m not sheep-herding or stall-cleaning), but that I’ve just finished up a big [...]
A little while ago, my esteemed editor forwarded me this note from Norton’s subsidiary rights department… Audio rights for THE HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE WORLD have just been sold to [...]
Following on my first and second posts in this series, I’ll now wrap up by telling you why my upcoming History of the Renaissance World begins in the twelfth century and ends with the [...]
Not long ago, I received the following email from a loyal reader: You noted in your blog that the “History of the Renaissance World…will cover from the end of the First Crusade to the end of [...]
(Part Two of “When Did the Middle Ages End?” coming shortly! In the meantime…) Anyone want to play Where in the World is Susan? These should give you a pretty broad [...]
Late last spring, feeling punchy after way too many hours at the keyboard, I tossed off the following email to my esteemed editor: Dear Star, I have a new title idea. How about “There Is No [...]
We're in Washington, D.C. for a couple of days, doing field trips to museums with Emily and Dan. I LOVE this picture. Totally unstaged–I mean, Pete and I are hamming it up, but we had no [...]
I wrote, "But all was not well on the borders." Copyeditor corrected to, "But not all was well on the borders." Nope, I like mine better. # I wrote "They knew little of [...]