By Jenny Milchman No matter what the groundhog reported, it’s still blissfully chilly where I live, the ground as hard as iron and snow on all the peaks (even though we had to do without enough of the white stuff down at lower elevation). You’re probably getting the idea that I absolutely...
RESOLUTIONS FOR READERS & WRITERS
By Jenny Milchman It’s that time of year again when a brand new shiny four digit number is nigh. You know what that means—we’re about to start vowing to do all sorts of crazy sh—um, stuff—like cut out desserts/carbs/food or go to the gym four times a day or not curse the guy who cuts us off at the...
DUN, DUN, DUN, DUN…DEADLINE!
By Jenny Milchman When Steven Spielberg’s film version of Peter Benchley’s blockbuster Jaws came out, it furthered the reach of the novel, spawned (ha, get it, a fish reference?) a whole school of (I can keep going) sometimes great, sometimes comical derivations that continue to this day (I’m...
CAR-SCHOOLING: Life Lessons & Tips from the Road
By Jenny Milchman When my first novel came out, my husband and I did the next logical thing. Rented out our house, traded in two cars for an SUV that could handle Denver in February, and took our kids out of first and third grades to set out on what Shelf Awareness called the world’s longest book...
MOTHER’S DAY IS NEXT MONTH
By Jenny Milchman And do I have some books for you! Or for a mother in your life, or someone you think of as a mother, or someone who has or once had a mother—and I could go on. Point being that every one of us has been touched in some way by the concept of motherhood, whether in real life or...
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
You Need a You Space By Jenny Milchman They say the happiest kind of actor is a working actor, and that’s true of writers too. Lately I’ve begun to think that it may be true of all people, period. Sigmund Freud, albeit he’s be cancelled for a lot of things circa today, got it right when he said...
JUSTICE IS SERVED
By Jenny Milchman Five Triumphant Thrillers As a five-foot, zero-inch woman, I can't exactly kill a bad guy with my bare hands like Reacher. So I right wrongs in my books, and love authors who do as well. Here's five triumphant thrillers I'd highly recommend. The School for Good Mothers by...
MEETING YOUR HERO
by Jenny Milchman My heroes don’t fly or wear tight neoprene suits or fight epic battles. They’re not fictional; they’re real. (Well, okay, Reacher—he’s fictional, and fights, and would probably look great in a neoprene suit). But for the most part, my heroes are literary ones. Authors. I’ve been...
SUMMERTIME AND THE WRITING IS EASY
By Jenny Milchman Let’s face it, writing is never exactly easy. Even on the best days, when the words seem to appear on the screen by magic, to move from our brain to our electrified fingers like lightning bolts, we wind up flattened and enervated by EOD, as if we really did just experience 10,000...
Happily Never After: Q&A with Hannah Mary McKinnon
by Jenny Milchman As a writer, I find it particularly brave when a book doesn't end on a note of justice, when things don't turn out hunky-dory in the end. (Anyone else still worried about that baby in Gone Girl, now a tween and up to who-knows-what?) After all, this is more realistic,...