Often the best souvenirs writers bring back from Trips To Away are fresh new books to write - or a whole new committment to our art.  When we leave our homes, computers, and regular schedules, we become untethered. All the assumptions and paradigms that restrict us as writers suddenly come into question. Wide open, we float [...]

I’ve been fighting a censorship battle all week. No, a parent did not challenge one of my books in a library. I should be so lucky. That kind of challenge is news- and publicity-worthy.
Instead, I was battling the censors from Texas right in my own head. Worse, I was losing.
Yesterday I submitted my second nonfiction [...]