• Writer, Love Your Words

    When I was about to launch my book tour a few years a­­go, I was nervous about reading in public—I tend to mumble, and have never been a good storyteller—so I thought it might be a good idea for me [...]

  • Writing Through Difficulty

    I know, the expression is “practice makes perfect,” but there is no perfect when it comes to writing. There is only, “As close to perfect as I can make it.” [...]

  • Turning a Novel into a Memoir into a Novel-as-Memoir

    Many years ago, I wrote a novel–my first novel–and it was pretty good.  Good enough to be a finalist in three national contests, and I was pretty sure it was going to get published, or that it would land me [...]

  • The Gospel According to Danny

    A novel by David Hicks. The Gospel According to Danny is a deeply human story about love, fatherhood, and the cost of a divided nation. [...]

  • Fiction as Truth

    I’m writing this on the publication date of my children’s book, THE MAGIC TICKET (Fulcrum Books), so naturally, I’m thinking a lot about the subject of the story, my late sister Sandra [...]