Lifescapes

BookScapes: Review of AND EVERY WORD IS TRUE

When In Cold Blood was published in 1965, Truman Capote’s book was a landmark, widely promoted as a factually true account of the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in a small town in Kansas, and of the investigation, the trial and appeals, and the execution of the two convicted killers. Capote (with his longtime friend Harper Lee acting as his research assistant) amassed over 8,000 pages of research notes and spent five years on the writing. Famously, he claimed that . . . Read the rest on my BookScapes blog.

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My Life in Typewriters: On Becoming a Writer 2

Lives change, as I said in my previous post on this continuing thread. (If you haven’t read this, you might want to skip over there and see where this blog series begins.)

Yes. Lives change. I was a stay-at-home mom and a freelance kids’ fiction writer from the late 1950s into the early ’60s, living in a little house outside of Danville, IL. When my husband took a job at the News-Gazette in Champaign, we moved there. I decided to take one or two courses at the university and somehow turned into a . . . Read the rest on my new LifeScapes blog.

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November's "All About Thyme"

Looking for the November issue of "All About Thyme"? You can find it on my new website, along with a thymely November calendar, some savory suggestions for seasonal projects, and this month’s special feature, a post about a killer plant. And while you're there, you can subscribe for announcements of these unique eletters. Nothing else like them, anywhere.