The Seagull

Memoir

We went to see The Seagull, starring Annette Bening (and others but her performance was all-encompassing) yesterday at the Violet Crown in Austin. It was a masterful adaptation of the Chekhov play. Annette Bening was a delight, elegantly communicating both the pathos and the humor in her performance. It got me to thinking about seagulls….

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Children’s Book Manuscript

Children's, Submissions

I’ve been writing several children’s book manuscripts, inspired by Liz Garton Scanlon’s classes on the subject. I’ve attended two of her classes recently and highly recommend her as a teacher of picture book writing. My latest manuscript is called Hide and Freak. It’s about a girl playing hide and seek with her brother, and her…

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