2018 Year in Books
Total books read: 58 Nonfiction: 7 Craft of writing: 2 Memoir by Kansas authors: 2 Fiction: 51 Written by friends: 4 (but I have several more queued up–I ran out of time!) Written by other authors represented by my agent:…
“Leah” — The First Two Pages
“The First Two Pages,” a blog series begun by B.K. Stevens in 2015 and continued after her death in 2017 by Art Taylor, features a fabulous collection of essays in which fiction writers discuss the decisions they made in crafting…
Tonganoxie versus Tyson
In the fall of 2017, residents of Tonganoxie, Kansas, a town of about 5,500 people, did what many thought impossible: They fought multinational corporate chicken producer Tyson Foods and won. Read my interviews with some of the leaders of the…