Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

Love at 350° A delicious romance-comedy

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Welcome fellow Detroit author, Lisa Peers, to my blog: Lisa Peers and I met many years ago at a Detroit Working Writers Conference. I remember her sitting at the table in the conference room with her latest book, Love and Other B-Sides. So much time and so many books have happened since then for the both of us! Lisa has a brand new book to celebrate, Love at 350°, that Booklist describes as … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Sarah Carson

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What:  This neighborhood, our boulevards, neighbor boys’ whose long legs count cement stoops, whose daddies warm motorcycles on the driveway, whose mommas can’t leave their card tables, tell these men to ride along. South of the mailboxes, the box elder tree, the box truck now half empty, there was no justice but one solder burn, one pen knife. Momma held us to her thigh as … [Read more...]

Ch-ch-changes

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How you doing? No, how are you really doing, post pandemic? We've come a long way since 2019, with so much progress in vaccines and treatment, for those of us who believe in science, anyway. A few weeks ago, I got my updated COVID shot, followed by the RSV (I keep wanting to call it RSVP), pneumococcal pneumonia, and the "senior" flu vaccine. I feel like a pincushion. Good Changes … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Craig Terlson

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What: I’ve always been a maker of things; I actually prefer that moniker to the somewhat loaded term “artist.” The first things I made were illustrations. I was lucky enough to draw and paint for a living for more than twenty-six years. Now, I make stories. I’ve written six novels, a bucket of short fiction (published in literary journals and made into a collection), and one really weird … [Read more...]

Text me. or text me

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Don't sweat punctuation… Michelle Markowitz, co-author of Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails, a book about off-the-rails group messages, is quoted in the WaPo: "We’re done fighting over capital letters and punctuation. Sorry, sticklers — this ship has sailed. A good text makes sense to its recipient, but that shouldn’t require consulting an SAT … [Read more...]