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 …
My writing instructor Julie Tallard Johnson said, “Better late than never — better to finish my novel by age 60 than not at all.” We cannot come late to this table of writers. Our whole life has prepared us. Compare a memoir at 20 and at 70 years of age. …
My first book! Really hitting the bookstores! How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted, the story about 15 years of interactions with my Madison friends who moved from a Tibetan refugee “camp” (more like a small town) in India, is out of …
