Chasing Freedom: the Story Behind the Story
It all started in China. Yes, you read that right. The origins of my book about Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony has everything to do with China. Let me explain. In 1988, I was asked to write a few monologues for theater pieces on American History that would be performed in a series of theaters […]
The Writing Process Blog Tour
Have you ever been on a blog tour? This is my first time being part of one. Blame Children’s Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt. He’s the one who roped me into this! Seriously, though, I’m happy to join the My Writing Process Blog Tour. I hope you can take something meaningful from my responses to the […]
Barack Obama
You know how I’m always saying I’m up for a challenge? Well, with this book, God called me on it. Everything about this book was impossible. In 2008, I was going along, minding my own business, writing my books and sweating the latest deadline. I’d instructed my agent to restrain herself from offering me any new […]
The Road to Paris
I spent several years in and out of foster care when I was a child. Little wonder, then, that foster children pop up in my poems and stories. I didn’t explore the theme in a fuller text, though, until I wrote The Road to Paris. The Road to Paris is a novel about Paris Richmond, a […]