Pen On Fire / Writers on Writing

....but DO NOT DESPAIR....visit www.penonfire.com for the active blog and for the website and goings on. If you want the archive for the radio show podcasts, visit writersonwriting.blogspot.com. Shows will be posted on penonfire.com when available, too. You can also subscribe to receive emails when new posts are made on the blog. Visit penonfire.com to subscribe.

Author and activist Robert "Snorkel Bob" Winter, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about his books, and about endangered tropical fish in Hawaii. Download audio. (Broadcast date: Dec. 5, 2012)

Authors Sonia Marsh, Mary Castillo, Nancy Klann-Moren, and Charles Leister talk about their books, and the process of self publishing. (Starts a little bit late.) Download audio. (Broadcast date: Jan. 2, 2013

Novelist Diana Wagman, author of The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets, spent the entire hour with me talking about her new novel, publishing, writing, and more. Download audio. (Broadcast date: December 12, 2012)

Dublin-based novelist (journalist, screenwriter, book reviewer) John Banville for an hour to about his latest novel, Ancient Light, his mystery series, writing, writers, and more, and as the show goes on, it gets downright jolly. Download audio. (Broadcast date: 12.19.2012)

Hi gang, My website has been revamped and so you can now find my blog on the website at www.penonfire.com. If you're just looking for radio shows that have been podcast, writersonwriting.blogspot.com has those.

If you're in Southern California this coming Sunday, come to the West Hollywood Book Fair. Lots of panels and literary company. Free parking, a free fun day in the sun. My memoir panel with Claire Bidwell Smith, Pamela Ribon, and Judith Hannan is at 11 on the Eclectic Stage. Come by! On October 23 at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon at Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar, our guest will be Martin J. Smith, author of The Wild Duck Chase. Marty is also editor at Orange Coast magazine so he'll be talking

I always forget to post here that my Gotham Writing Workshop called "Jumpstart Your Writing" begins on October 2. You can read all about it here. It's an online workshop for writers who need to, as it says, jumpstart their writing. There's exercises, lectures, critiques. What's also fun about it is that writers from all over the world participate. Email me if you have questions for me. Also, the Pen on Fire Writers Salon will host novelists Susan Straight and Tatjana Soli on Sept. 18. You can read

Chris Bohjalian, author of The Sandcastle Girls, and journalist and Christian Science Monitor book reviewer Randy Dotinga talk with me on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM 88.9 in Orange Co, CA and online at www.kuci.org and iTunes college radio. More at penonfire.blogspot.com. Download audio. (Broadcast date: July 29, 2012

This is a Voices on Writing feature I wrote for the June issue of The ASJA Monthly, which I edit. This is the unedited version. More Voices on Writing Q&As at www.asja.org; click on The ASJA Monthly.