I’m a great starter, but not such a great finisher. I love to start new projects. My head bursts with ideas. I’m assailed daily with plots and characters and settings, premises, beginning and ends.  I have to resist the urge to add each one to my growing pile of projects, of works in progress. I … More The Rule of Seven

I came across this list on Amazon : Secular Books for Children. Why is it that lists like these almost always contain nothing but books written with the same smarmy sincerity as sex-ed books from the 1980s? Where is the quality? The humor? The fun? Secularism is a pretty wide open field after all. I suppose … More Secular Books for Children

Reading a recent article about the proposed preservation of Roald Dahl’s writing hut, made me start to think about where writers write. Myself, I write in an office, which is really just the front bedroom of my house.  It’s a combined writing and sewing room, but as I only moved into this house two months … More Where do you write?

This blog is long overdue, but with several things happening in my writing career, and new teaching opportunities coming up regularly, I needed somewhere to keep everyone up to date on my activities. So here it is.  If you’re wondering why this blog is called “Angelhorn” there’s an explanation here. Apart from that, welcome, stay a … More Welcome to Angelhorn