by Linda Rodriguez I hold in my hands a beautiful book, an important book. It’s been a labor of love to put this together, struggling with the herding-cats nature of organizing a number of writers to get their work, bios, and contracts in to meet deadlines. To carry a project from the first bright idea […]
by Linda Rodriguez Periodically, I get a little burned-out from working too long and hard without a break. I start to face resistance when I sit down to write. I have developed several techniques for dealing with this, but the first one I always try—and one that usually works—is to turn to what other writers […]
by Linda Rodriguez I don’t do many promotional posts, so I hope you’ll bear with this one. I have a new book coming November 30th, something different from my poetry or novels. For many years, I’ve taught writing workshops and classes in person and online. A number of people across the nation have asked that […]
by Linda Rodriguez This is not really my house (thank heavens). My husband, the world’s original disorganized, absent-minded professor, is fond of saying, “I’m going to get it together,” as if he’s putting the final touches on a perfectly organized life. Now, regular readers of this blog may remember that my youngest son, who adores […]
by Linda Rodriguez Right now, I’m at Bouchercon in New Orleans, so this will be a short photo-heavy blog. My Bouchercon began with the SinC Into Great Writing, “Doing Diversity Right,” afternoon after great drama in traveling there with lots of “will I make it in time” suspense. But my wonderful road-warrior husband dropped me […]
by Linda Rodriguez It’s the first of September, but it still feels like August, and that’s gone on so long that my eyes are permanently raw from sun and heat and truly excessive humidity. This photo is me at sixteen in my senior play, Li’l Abner, playing Moonbeam McSwine, a sultry woman whose way of […]
by Linda Rodriguez Sisters in Crime recently published this important document, Report for Change: The 2016 SinC Publishing Summit Report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Mystery Community, that I was privileged to be a part of. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.sistersincrime.org/resource/resmgr/summit_report/SinC-Diversity-Report-2016-F.pdf I have been so proud of SinC for this work that they initiated themselves without us […]
by Linda Rodriguez The temps were 102° today with a heat index of 110°. I spent the day as I have this entire week, working in a local Panera all day, even though I have a nice big office with spacious desk and comfortable desk chair. Our big old house, like a lot of older […]
by Linda Rodriguez Virginia Woolf has a reputation for difficulty that she doesn’t deserve. It came about because she was a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness technique in the novel to give the reader the sense of being inside a character’s mind. She and James Joyce were contemporaneous with this experiment with Dorothy Richardson slightly ahead of […]
by Linda Rodriguez When I was miserably sick just recently, I started re-reading Virginia Woolf’s letters for comfort and delight. (No, I’m not afraid of Virginia Woolf, nor should you be. The title of that play by Albee was a terrible canard. She’s one of the most readable writers ever and a fabulous role model […]