Reading novels I admire often sparks ideas for my next novel. For The Light of the Bartender’s Daughter, the spark was Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky. Language is usually where my inspiration lies–something beautiful or unusual or engrossing, and Poor Deer contains all three. I finished Poor Deer on or before June 9, 2024, according…
It’s a vulnerable endeavor, to invite people on my novel-publishing journey. Publishing a literary novel these days is not merely achieved by writing an excellent novel, enlisting a great editor, and then getting it into the right hands. Many worthy novels won’t get published, and that unfortunate fact is often not due to author negligence….