Book Reading and Signing
If you're local to Vashon or the Seattle area, please join me on June 26th for an evening at Snapdragon Bakery & Cafe's Black Cat Cabaret...
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taviblack
- May 26
- 2 min
Historical Novels and Real-life Influences
As I await the launch of my debut novel in less than a week, my focus turns to my next project. My historical novel, Serabelle, follows...
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taviblack
- May 17
- 1 min
Indie Book Awards
Where Are We Tomorrow? has been awarded a finalist medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It's been many years since the...
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taviblack
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Embracing Instagram as an Introvert
Social Media. Instagram. Twitter. For those of us who grew up with rotary dial phones, it can be an uncomfortable world. I was a hold-out...
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taviblack
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Working in Multiple Genres (and trying to market!)
I've always been the kind of artist that is interested in many forms, many genres--all of the beauty and tragedy out there. I was a...
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taviblack
- Apr 2
- 1 min
Dive out today in Levee Magazine
My short story "Dive" about a freediver in the Bahamas is out today in Levee Magazine. I researched the story by going diving with a...
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taviblack
- Mar 15
- 6 min
Favorite Books #8
I studied Ann Patchett's Bel Canto while writing Where Are We Tomorrow? as a guide for how to successfully write an ensemble piece. I...
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taviblack
- Mar 3
- 1 min
From Literary Fiction to Middle Grade
When I started my middle grade novel, it was just a fun project, something for my daughter and me to do during lockdown. Many of the...
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taviblack
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Favorite Books #7
Frank Conroy's Body & Soul is one of those books that stays with you in images, in feeling. Often, I will not remember exact plot...
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taviblack
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Favorite Books #6
I tend to love almost anything by Salman Rushdie. Considering the feminist slant to most of my work, you wouldn't think an author like...
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taviblack
- Feb 15
- 1 min
A chance to win with Authoress
Some of you know I've been working on a middle grade fantasy novel called Wished Forward. With every project, I always think it's a good...
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taviblack
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Publication Date May 31st
I'm excited to announce that Where Are We Tomorrow? will be released on May 31st, 2021. Preorder is available on Amazon (link button on...
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taviblack
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Favorite #5
When I read the bio of Abraham Verghese at the beginning of his fine novel, Cutting for Stone, I will admit had a moment of...
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taviblack
- Jan 21
- 1 min
Favorite Books #4
A friend of mine, on a celebratory election call yesterday, said, when introducing a poet, "The beauty of language is that when words...
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taviblack
- Jan 14
- 2 min
Some of my Favorite Books #3
I've decided to change my title to "favorites" instead of "best books ever". The competition is too large to lay this moniker on the few...
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taviblack
- Jan 4
- 1 min
Best Books Ever #2
Keri Hulme's 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People opens with a dense bit of prose poetry. Images and sentences that leave an...
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taviblack
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
Best Books Ever #1
There's nothing better than falling in love with a book. How many times a year do we ache to get back into a story we've left off the...
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taviblack
- Dec 8, 2020
- 1 min
Short Story Cheer
I was asked recently, “Are all of your short stories so sad?” I had to think for a moment, remembering back over all of the stories I...
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taviblack
- Nov 21, 2020
- 2 min
Why I'm in Love with Poetry Unbound
Pádraig Ó Tuama might be my favorite new person. Every podcast has me on the edge of tears---not from sadness, but from an incredulous...
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