You heard that before, right? One last go round last night and this morning, and we’re finished. The way we work, Jenny keeps the master version because she’s a) smarter b) more energetic or c) she’s a glutton for punishment. Every time she sends me a new final version of the mss. I have to […]

So there I was in my lovely hotel room in Matera, Italy where I was speaking at the International Women’s Fiction Festival, and the owner, who advertised that he had wi-fi, pointed to the ethernet plug in the wall–to which, of course, I had no cable. Then I looked for internet cafes, which were open–only […]