by csweet | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
I am really, really falling down on the blogging front. This disappoints me—though I have the very best reason for falling down: I’m writing with the kind of joy and focus I haven’t felt since three books ago, with The Pattern Scars. I did a reading last...
by csweet | Aug 6, 2016 | Blog Archive
When I was in Greece 30 years ago, my classics classmates and I stayed in double rooms in hotels and got up at the crack of dawn to pile onto tour buses. When I was in Greece last month, my family and I stayed here, at the Villa Calista on Crete. The...
by csweet | May 29, 2016 | Blog Archive
The other night, Grace, a friend and former neighbour, invited me over for an evening of writing talk with some friends of hers. They were an inspiring, inspired bunch: women navigating the intertwined drudgeries and joys of life and art. Some have known each other...
by csweet | Mar 30, 2016 | News
Last year, The Pattern Scars was selected for inclusion in an Aurora Awards “e-bundle”, along with some other pretty fine novels. The bundle is now available–and for a mere three weeks. Check it out! Buy it! Read, read, read! Author Doug Smith...
by csweet | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
When I was 14, baking in summer sunshine on a friend’s upper-floor balcony, I decided to begin writing a history of the relationship between Alexander the Great and his best friend/lover, Hephaestion. This wouldn’t be a fictionalized trifle: it would be...
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