Book Launch Day: LIFE OF THE MIND INTERRUPTED
:: Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
HOW TO STAY Goes Traveling
:: “A poignant and layered narrative about the universal desire for something so elusive—a safe place to fall.” There’s been some news on the writing front for me: I had a new book come out in September, and I have another new one coming out in two...
How To Write A Holiday Love Story
:: When my publisher told me they wanted me to write a love story set around the winter holidays, and “Oh, it needs a happy ending”—I felt like I was standing barefoot and under-supplied at the bottom of a very tall, very rocky mountain that I had to climb if I ever...
Nerdy-Amazing Book Review
:: “The Complete Legal Writer promises much and delivers more,” says the best book review, ever. I write a lot of things: novels, essays and journalism pieces, and, as you might not know, nerdy books on nerdy things like legal reasoning, writing,...
Every Book Deserves a Party
:: I’m still me. I’m just me with a new novel. At the beginning of this month, my second novel, CHASING CHAOS, came out. (It’s part of the Hollywood Lights Series.) That was pretty awesome but also weird (as I wrote about here). As I mentioned in that earlier...01. About Me
Author, speaker, law professor. I write books that shine light on difficult subjects with grace and humor.
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