How to Write a Book When Life Keeps Getting in the Way People have a wonderfully romantic idea about writing a novel in rural France. They imagine me sitting at
When I wrote The Atonement of St. Jude, I honestly had no idea how it would be received. Like most first time authors, you spend months, even years, wondering whether
We all carry guilt. Sometimes it arrives loudly, tied to something obvious we wish we had never done. But more often, guilt is quieter than that. It slips into the
