The best romcom of all time. Great cast but Hugh Griffith steals every scene he’s in. Stream it here. Sarah Paine explains it all to us in less than one minute. Turns out it’s not rocket science. Click through above to watch. Notorious Foodie‘s Mac and Cheese. I so want a seat at that table.…
Long ago and far away I taught a class on “The Business of Writing” at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. One of the segments was how to write a query letter, and included a sample query letter I wrote to give my students an idea of how to get their toe in the door. From…
I don’t read books by writers on writing. It’s too much like work. There are as always exceptions to every rule, of course, and Barbara Kingsolver’s chapters in High Tide in Tucson, on her first book tour and on being a backup singer for the Rock Bottom Remainders are brilliant, true, and hilarious. (I loved…
I suck at blurbs. If I read a book and like it I can write a good review but that snappy six-word cover copy attention getter is beyond me. I mean, I have a hard time writing the elevator pitch for my own books. I also dislike the whole notion of blurbs. I hate exploiting…
She is best known for novels like The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea which I read and loved as a child, but my favorite piece Ursula K. Le Guin ever wrote was the introduction to The Norton Book of Science Fiction. At least until I ran across this essay, “The Carrier…
Those wonderful people at Kampa Verlag have published the first Kate Shugak novel, In der Kälte Alaskas (yes, that’s A Cold Day for Murder on this side of the pond), in a new German translation just in time for the holidays! It’s a very handsome paperback, with a sturdy, flapped cover, cover art with alpenglow…
[*I was going to title this post “Puuuurrrrrrty,” but I caught myself in time.] Yep, the finish copy is now in my hands, another stellar production by Head of Zeus. (And incidentally, who are those guys? I want names and photos and maybe addresses, too, so I can declare my undying devotion to each and…
This week Emily from Head of Zeus wrote, “I put together a history sheet that provides some background to the world at the start of the [Eye of Isis] series. That way there’s no spoilers for those jumping in with Abduction of a Slave or starting at the beginning of the series. Also attached is a character…
Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. I wrote a piece about research rabbit holes a minute ago (in Internet time, anyway) when researching Abduction of a Slave (Isis4, publishing in January 2025), and it crystalized a realization that has been coming on slowly over, oh, say…
Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. The Great and Powerful KelseyG is the reason all my social media looks as good as it does, including the Roadhouse Report, my monthly newsletter you’re all subscribed to.* In this month’s RR I wanted to give you an update…
