Tag Archives: The Right Word
Enacting in safe spaces the dramas of our lives: Marc Zegans
By Roz Kay “You seem to know a lot about humans,” she whistled, splashing with her hind flippers. “Perhaps you will write it all down for me.” These lines, from Marc Zegans’ poem The Underwater Typewriter (in his new collection … Continue reading
Seeing the heart of the story: Melissa DeCarlo
By Roz Kay Call it a seven-year itch of sorts. Because seven years after Melissa DeCarlo stopped writing (“I got frustrated … it was almost like I was resentful toward it”) she started again, and the result is her first published novel, … Continue reading
Query letters to literary agents: Don’t be weird
By Roz Kay Literary agent Janet Reid runs the Query Shark web site. There are some of my notes from her talk at the 2015 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City. I’ve posted about the right way to query literary … Continue reading
A different kind of writing blog: Roz Kay
Hello, and welcome to my blog. It’s mostly conversations with writers: authors, poets, and playwrights. I sometimes include “guest posts” from writers on the publication of their books, and I maintain a page of writing tips. My debut children’s novel, The Keeper of the Stones, … Continue reading
Tapping into something universal: Curt Anderson
By Roz Kay One night, Curt Anderson dreamed that his father reappeared from the afterlife and complained that Curt wasn’t looking after the car he’d inherited from him. “I always thought that was kind of funny,” Curt says. So it … Continue reading
Walking down a different aisle: Lisa Francesca
By Roz Kay When you pick up Lisa Francesca’s little powder-blue book, The Wedding Officiant’s Guide, How to Write & Conduct a Perfect Ceremony, it seems obvious what it is. And while it is indeed a handbook for those of … Continue reading
A journey into determination: Vincent Hunt
By Roz Kay “That was a tough morning.” Vincent Hunt’s new book, Fire and Ice: the Nazis’ scorched earth campaign in Norway, poignantly and with dignity captures the pain still threading like barbed wire through the communities that survived the … Continue reading
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