Nine years ago today, I sat in a high school classroom watching images of a terrifying, unthinkable tragedy unfolding in my country. No one will never forget where they were that day or what it felt like to be so helpless in the face of [Read more…]

Where did you find this one? I can’t get enough of Southern fiction. Not just because it’s my genre of choice, but because I find it a lot easier to relate to their lives and stories than with other types of writing. Give me kudzu, [Read more…]

I don’t cook. Ever. Ask my friends, family, even casual acquaintances and they will not hesitate to tell you that I spend an average of five minutes each day in my kitchen (and that’s mostly because I have to walk through it to get to [Read more…]

As writers, one of the things we struggle with most (especially–thought not always–at the beginning of our careers) is settling into one writing style. It took me years of writing some very good and very bad pieces to realize that my natural voice is a humorous, [Read more…]