It’s valuable to attend a conference from time to time, but a writer’s time is best spent reading and writing. You have to keep learning and make your work better and better. In today’s world, everybody is selling something, but it’s great to do the work first.
The second photograph shows its underwing. Drinking from an African daisy in my yard. Lots of butterfly photographs are in my book THE ART OF BUTTERFLY GARDENING.
Recently, Andrea Davis Pinkney vice president and editor-at-large at Scholastic Books told me, “You always have such intriguing submissions.” Intriguing submissions lead to intriguing published books. Thanks for the compliment, Andrea.
And today, Jeremy Davies, editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, one of the top literary publishers in the world, said that I write “well-constructed, no nonsense fiction.” Wow, thanks Jeremy!
Harold Augenbraum, esteemed editor of the Yale Review, told me today that my fiction “is very vivid and well-written,” and asked to see more of it. This is a good sign. I love “very vivid.”
