Author Archives: Pearl

I seem to have fallen off blogging, given that a few people have emailed to ask, basically, is ya dead? Funny thing to happen, when I’m on twitter most days and food blogging daily yet still seem to vanish while doing that much publicly. Anyhew, tonight is the Tree Reading Series Poetry Workshop, Arts Court, […]

Venus Envy and Voices of Venus is tonight with Rhonda Douglas. Tomorrow above/ground press bills

A pip squeak of a eureka. It’s not just author and reader. It’s not just where author is in their life at time of writing, and where the reader is, in a place to receive or understand at the time. It’s where the reader is physically. I’ve looked shelves for what I’m in the mood […]

As you probably know I tend to cycle among titles, thru a day reading a bit of this and that to keep the palate refreshed since any given book doesn’t vary much and falls to same-same pretty quickly. I can read 40 pages at a sitting of a greatly enjoyable or engaging book. Something internally […]

“Most men of imagination and ability dream of writing a book, a few work out their dream, and fewer still persuade a publisher to give it printed reality, but no man is a professional writer until he has thought up a second book; and given it substance” ~ J.E. Morpurgo in introduction to Keats.