So happy to be working with web designer Tom Kepler on a redesign of maryhutchingsreed.com/~maryhutc. His tagline is “Clean Design is Fun,” and working with him has taught me a lot about how to use my site to better advantage, and to make it more interesting and easily navigable for my readers. Look for my...Read More
“Someday is now.” That’s attorney Ruth Kaufman’s motto, but ironically, her “now” is 1453, Henry VI is king, and what we now call the Wars of the Roses will soon begin. The king sends Sir Nicholas Gray to protect the recently widowed lady Amice Winfield from undesirable suitors. Though Nicholas is intrigued by her (and...Read More
Susie Isaacs and David Robson from Ampersand told me that Saluting the Sun is now available for Kindle on amazon.com. We’re hoping to get 20+ reviews on amazon suring this “soft launch” period. right now, only $3.99! To encourage you to read and review! Read More
Delay. Delay. Delay. Some say it’s the essence of dramatic writing. Unlike expository writing, where the first sentence of each paragraph pretty much sums up the point to be made, each sentence in dramatic writing leads the reader to the next sentence so that the reader is forced to read on —...Read More
At the Chicago Writers Conference last weekend, author and teacher Eric Charles May gave a talk about causality in fiction. He said that we all tolerate accidents in real life, and while we may ask “Why?” or “Why me?” at various crises in our lives, we inevitably must accept that at times there are no...Read More
A good writing conference energizes and inspires as well as providing new information, or at least old information in a fresh way. Chicago Writers Conference, which wrapped up today, was a great writing conference. Speakers were candid, generous and actually concerned, it seemed, with sharing information rather than gratifying their own egos. While shattering dreams...Read More
David Vinjamuri gives indie published books a boost in his Forbes article, mentioning Warming Up and the other ILA Soon to be Famous Author finalists. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvinjamuri/2014/06/06/with-ebooks-still-pricey-illinois-libraries-flex-their-marketing-muscle/Read More
April 25, 2014 One of the comforts of being a writer is getting to write. But as soon as you publish those carefully chosen words, you’re suddenly expected to become a speaker. Lawyers have the advantage in this regard of having developed their presentation skills, but courtroom drama and negotiating-table dramatics are slightly different arts...Read More
Read all about it in today’s Chicago Tribune, Lifestyle section. Reproduced below: chicagotribune.com Remarkable Woman Mary Hutchings Reed, lawyer turned writer Lawyer fulfills long-deferred dream of being a writer By Bill Daley, Tribune Newspapers 12:00 AM CST, January 24, 2014 Mary Hutchings Reed had three Ivy League degrees, launched her legal career in 1976 and...Read More
