Many of you reading this blog know Lynne Baab personally. Some of you know her through her interviews here on my blog. Some of you have read her books. The woman is amazingly prolific: seven non-fiction books, two Bible studies and a novel in the past decade! In...
At the end of September, I had the privilege of attending my first writing retreat at Laity Lodge, nestled in the Frio River canyon in the beautiful Texas hill country. Among the many wonderful writers I met there was Dena Dyer, a Texas girl with burgundy hair and a...
When poet Laura’s friend Megan dares her to write a novel by September, Laura lies down on her kitchen floor and hopes to die of a worm. It was the worm that hooked me. Really. I read the first chapter of The Novelist by L.L. Barkat and then bought the book. I...
I confess, until I got this job with T.S. Poetry Press, my interest in poetry was, well, limited. Mostly to rhymes that I read with my kids. But now that I’ve been plunged headlong into the poetry world, I’m starting to learn how to swim in these waters....
For Christmas my husband bought me a book I’d been wanting for several months: L.L. Barkat’s Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity and Writing. I read it in three sittings. Then I read it again. It’s a beautiful book, easily my favorite book on...
K.C. Ireton is a writer and teacher. The author of The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year and Cracking Up: A Postpartum Faith Crisis, she lives near Seattle with her husband and four school-aged children. She is a lover of books, gardens, and tea. Also, Oxford commas.