Author Archives: arwenbicknell

About arwenbicknell

Editor by day, author by night.

And, scene.

Posted on June 17, 2015 by arwenbicknell

This morning I put final touches on the book, and it is now in the hands of an agent.  And so, the waiting and a new flavor of fretting begins. I am not sure how to feel about it. Part of … Continue reading →

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Down by Two

Posted on June 9, 2015 by arwenbicknell

One more week, and I should have something resembling progress on my book to share here. In the meantime, I’m delighted to report that the man who brought you America 1844 (and to whom I am married) is now contracted to … Continue reading →

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So You Want to Be an Author

Posted on June 1, 2015 by arwenbicknell

There are big doings afoot, but I feel like if I talk about them before they happen, I will jinx them. So instead I will share something that made me laugh harder than the comments on the Hutzler 571 banana slicer. When … Continue reading →

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Faith, Hope, and Charity

Posted on May 26, 2015 by arwenbicknell

Yes, I know some translations say it should be “love” instead of “charity,”  but I need more of the latter than the former right now—and I like to think that I try to pay all three of those forward to the best … Continue reading →

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Seminars, Symposiums, and Oh, Yeah, Books

Posted on May 18, 2015 by arwenbicknell

So, there have been several developments, some of them social, some of them literary. I went to a book festival in Kentucky last month as a spousal tagalong while my husband talked America 1844.  It was interesting to go to the seminars—all … Continue reading →

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Lack of Focus, Little Progress

Posted on April 11, 2015 by arwenbicknell

I have not finished reading any books.  I am in the middle of one (re-reading an old Karen Abbott—Sin in the Second City), listening to another (David McCullough’s 1776), and foolishly started a third this week because it looked frothy … Continue reading →

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“Moby Dick? Never Read It.”

Posted on March 25, 2015 by arwenbicknell

(Titled with apologies to Laurie Anderson.) Well, I still haven’t technically read it, and I daresay I never will. I spent the past two weeks listening to it on CD during my commutes to work, and that was enough to put … Continue reading →

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Midstream…

Posted on March 16, 2015 by arwenbicknell

This is the problem with trying to blog every week.  Too many works in progress, no progress to actually report. The proposal is written and in the hands of a capable but overtaxed editor who will get to it when … Continue reading →

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Getting Closer

Posted on March 10, 2015 by arwenbicknell

The book, oh the book. Every day I do not write the book.  But I poke at it around the edges. I send email to strangers looking for information I don’t have, and they probably don’t either. I do web … Continue reading →

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Dropping the Ball

Posted on March 1, 2015 by arwenbicknell

Well, I missed last week’s window to blog.  I wish I could say it was because I was working so hard on the book, or so absorbed in reading someone else’s, but the truth is I was just flat lazy … Continue reading →

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