Posts by Céline
Down the Shore, to Asbury Park
A recent book event at the Asbury Book Cooperative led me to an excursion the Jersey shore.
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Why You Should Consider Multiple Points of View in Your Novel
First published on Women On Writing Writers often struggle with whether to tell a story through the lens of one or many characters. Multiple point of view (POV) can be tricky to master, but there are several reasons it can be very effective. Rather than go with your gut, consider if your intentions align with…
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How To Use Setting To Do More
Recently, I led a mini-lesson in setting for the Book Revision Lab and this essay is one I wrote for their Journal. I love writing setting, but I do so from instinct. In preparing for the lesson, I realized that beyond an awareness that setting is meant to draw the reader into the world of the…
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Book Launch Events, 2023
With the publication of The Stark Beauty of Last Things in October, many events were squeezed in to the end of the year.
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The best novels for immersing yourself in nature
I’ve always been drawn to novels of place – novels that plunge you into a world you’venever been before. As a child the novels that made indelible impressions on meincluded The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, A Tale of Two Cities byCharles Dickens, and Heidi, by Johanna Spryi. As an adult I’ve…
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THE STARK BEAUTY OF LAST THINGS
Coming Soon! My new novel, THE STARK BEAUTY OF LAST THINGS, will be published in October 2023. It tells the story of four characters, each of whom is struggling to hold onto, protect, or find a home in a beautiful coastal town in the face of climate change and run-away development. The novel explores our connection…
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Blue Gallery: Reading & Book Party
Sat July 30th, 5:00 – 9:00 Celebrating the launch of Sue Mell’s beautiful debut, Provenance Join me at this gorgeous gallery https://www.bluegallerynyc.com, in a building that was a former stable & dairy, circa 1865, in Manhattan’s Turtle Bay. I’ll be reading along with Coco Picard, Susanne Davis, and the star of the show, Sue Mell.…
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Tulip Time
I love the absolute excess of masses and masses of tulips – their exuberance, their riot of color. On the Upper West Side there’s a lovely community garden that’s nestled among tall buildings https://www.westsidecommunitygarden.org/. Here residents tend a pocket garden that runs between 89th and 90th streets between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. The garden is…
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Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest
Tucked into Madison Square Park is an unexpected installation. At first it strikes one as curious – odd leafless trees in a cluster, framed by the Manhattan skyline. This is a statement piece by Mia Lin, an extraordinary way of making climate change visible. She has literally brought a dying forest to the city, so…
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2021 Events
Most events this year continue to be virtual. October 13, 2021 Reading & Conversation If interested, a link to this event is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPHVvkgCxDE March 6-10, 2021 Tucson Festival of Books This wonderful festival and conference was virtual this year. https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ I was honored to win the first place fiction award! https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=1486
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