The first cold snap and the first cold virus have taken hold in our house, calling for desperate measures. I burrow through the drawer stuffed with medications that I buy but seldom use and find the oddly comforting Chinese herbal syrup “Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa.” Once mixed with hot water, this drink has some […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
It was Henry James. That’s when I joined up. The club was reading Portrait of a Lady – for me, a rather inauspicious start. I had recently become a single woman, and my ex resembled Gilbert Osmond – the narcissistic collector (and discarder) of women at the story’s heart. But when Babs invited me she’d […]
Continued from Part 1 An outgrowth of Elizabeth’s writing group is her work as a freelance editor. Picture her next wearing an accountant’s green eyeshades, reading my manuscript, and scribbling notes in the margin. I asked her what she looks for when she considers taking on a new project. “The primary thing I look for […]
Bookseller, Executive Director of Charis Circle, Writing Group Facilitator, Freelance Editor, Novelist, Softball Player, House Remodeler, Cook, Dog Mama. Sometimes I imagine Elizabeth Anderson as one of those Indian women who walk with perfect grace while balancing great jars of grain, or in this case hats, on their heads. Or a character out of Dr. […]
The novel begins its tale in a poor mountain village in Spain, where the village elders prepare to perform a death rite on the disfigured, yet still breathing body of a middle aged man. The teenage son of the man attends the rite, surrounded by unsympathetic villagers who are the teen’s neighbors and friends. He […]
Plenty of journalists have successfully made the change from journalism to fiction writing, from Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to, more recently, Jennifer Weiner and local Atlanta writer (and former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter) Kathy Hogan Trochek. Margaret Mitchell was a reporter for the AJC, too. From an early age, I knew I wanted to be […]
Readers Unbound 