On writing: Contemplation as PreparationCan zooming out bring us closer to our own creativity?Aug 21, 2024Aug 21, 2024
Five travel books that helped me write my ownThere is no writing without reading: Without these five books, I might have been able to write my first one, but I would have been missing…Jul 7, 2015Jul 7, 2015
How to Survive the Morning After a Bad ReviewImagine your first book is about to be published. Imagine you’ve spent the past three (or four, or ten) years pouring your soul into a…Jun 6, 2015A response icon1Jun 6, 2015A response icon1
Once you’ve been to paradise, should you go back?“It’s a very beautiful place, a magical place. I remember when we were looking for locations with my scenographer…We arrived here and…May 24, 2015A response icon1May 24, 2015A response icon1
From Blog to Book, Part 6: In Production & in LimboWhat happens in those mysterious months between the day you deliver your manuscript and publication day?Mar 31, 2015Mar 31, 2015
Published inCuriosity Never Killed the WriterFrom Blog to Book, Part 1: How Did You Find Your Agent?The short answer: Belief, persistence, and a willingness to eat a lot of beans.Mar 13, 2015A response icon1Mar 13, 2015A response icon1
From Blog to Book, Part 2: How I Wrote My Nonfiction Book ProposalIf I’ve learned a single thing over the course of writing my first book, it’s that complacency has no place in the process.Mar 5, 2015Mar 5, 2015
From Blog to Book, Part 3: How I Got My Book DealBy the spring of 2011, four years after I’d started the Taxi Gourmet blog, I’d moved to Berlin, I had a literary agent, a lot of good press…Feb 26, 2015Feb 26, 2015
From Blog to Book, Part 4: How I Wrote My First Draft (Or, 8 Stages to a Manuscript)This is Part 4 of a 5-part series about how Taxi Gourmet, the food/travel blog I created in 2007, led to Driving Hungry, the book…Feb 22, 2015Feb 22, 2015
From Blog to Book, Part 5: A Poem is Never Finished — Revising the Manuscript“A poem is never finished,” wrote W.H. Auden. “It is simply abandoned.”Feb 6, 2015Feb 6, 2015
