by S.F. Powell | Jul 17, 2018 | Bookreading Fun
Walking around Capitol Hill recently, doing a little window shopping at some of the quaint shops (some older, some newer), I found myself pausing more in front of the few small bookstores sprinkled within a five-block radius. There’s just something about tomes lined...
by S.F. Powell | Jan 25, 2018 | Writing Life
I sometimes find myself in a bit of a quandary when it comes to genre definition. And, those writers who write one thing well? Well, I envy them. It’s not that I write so many things well (oh, no). All writers have their strengths and weaknesses, and with continued...
by S.F. Powell | Jan 17, 2018 | Sans Serif Potpourri
Many of us don’t, but most of us do: that annual ‘promise’ to one’s self to lose it, grow it, change it, stop it, start it, learn it, see it … I’m in that ‘many of us don’t’ category. Nothing wrong with New Year’s Resolutions; they’re good motivators for...
by S.F. Powell | May 16, 2017 | Writing Life
I’d been out of the groove of the book thang for several years, and so decided (with a new book coming out this year) that I needed to get familiar again with marketing my works (and myself) at book fairs.I’m scheduled for several events throughout 2017, but my first...
by S.F. Powell | Apr 25, 2017 | Writing Life
“It was a dark and stormy night …” (a tried and true opening for sure, and just as oft-played) The novel idea has been fleshed out, the research done, the writing utensils prepped (for those of us who prefer paper before processor). But the first page remains blank....
