I was thrilled to learn that the Wisconsin Historical Society Press has contracted a professional actress, Claire Slemmer, to render How to Make a Life from the written to the spoken word. When asked to provide pronunciation for non-English words, I was amazed I had included so many Tibetan, Hindi, …
The cover of my book is lovely, but when it’s lined up next to other books on a shelf, it modestly and shyly steps back, like the Tibetan kids themselves used to do, any time I threw them onto a soccer team, or into a birthday party of peers. To …
A yellow school bus pulled up to Folklore Village, my favorite rural folk arts center, near Ridgeway, Wisconsin, and off piled 12 teens in shorts and flip flops, followed by three dozen parents and friends, bearing sizeable roasting pans to put on the potluck table, trunks, suitcases and odd-shaped cases …
First book sold! One down, 1999 to go. All books start their life somewhere, after that date of publication, with a single book sold to an interested reader. I’m touched that a high school English teacher purchased the first copy of How to Make a Life from me – wondering …
