For Day 8 of the Creativity and COVID-19 Project, we check in with LA-based reporter and writer Christina Hoag, who has covered everything from guerrilla warfare in Colombia to gang wars in Los Angeles. Her books include the excellent “Skin of Tattoos” and...
Nobody writes suspense with the comic flair of the great Christopher Moore, the man behind such classics as Lamb, Coyote Blue, A Dirty Job, Noir, The Serpent of Venice, Fool and…well, I could go on forever. Suffice to say the man can write. In today’s...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Open Mic’s Creativity and COVID-19 Project. I’m checking in with a slew of writers and creative folks of all kinds to see how they are holding up during this pandemic, and to hopefully glean a few tips on how to stay...
Literary agent Jill Marr of the Sandra Dijkstra Agency in Los Angeles learned early on in her career how to find the hook that sends author to the bestseller’s list. After starting out writing ad copy for published books, she has spent the last 16 years...
As a crime reporter plying her trade in major media markets around the country, Claire Booth was no stranger to chronicling the bad behavior of bad people. But after her first book – a nonfiction account of a bizarre Northern California murder spree – she...
